Centaurea triumfetti subsp. pirinensis

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

(c) Subsp. pirinensis (Degen, Urum. & H. Wagner) Dostál, loc. cit. (1976)

(C. variegata var. pirinensis Degen , Urum. & H. Wagner):

Stems 10-20 cm, simple, broadly winged, leafy. Leaves white-lanate; lower broadly elliptical, entire or remotely sinuatedentate, gradually narrowed into petiole; cauline entire. Capitula shortly pedunculate. Involucre 10-15 mm in diameter, ovoid; bracts few, large; appendages with broad decurrent margin, dark brown; fimbriae twice as long as the width of the margin, pale brown, with white apex. Pappus 0*5-1 mm. • S.W. Bulgaria (Pirin Pl.).