Centaurea triumfetti subsp. adscendens

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 299

(i) Subsp. adscendens (Bartl.) Dostál, loc. cit. (1976)

(C. montana var. adscendens Bartl. ):

Stems c. 30 cm, simple, narrowly winged, slender. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, entire, acute, glabrescent and green above, grey-tomentose beneath; lower long-petiolate. Involucre 10-12 mm in diameter, ovoid; appendages with decurrent margin c. 0*3 mm wide, blackish-brown; fimbriae 3 times as long as the width of the margin, pale brown. Pappus c. 2 mm. Calcareous rocks. • S.E. Austria to W. Bulgaria.