Centaurea triumfetti subsp. aligera

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

(a) Subsp. aligera (Gugler) Dostál, Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 208 (1976)

(C. variegata var. aligera Gugler ):

Stems 20-70(-l00) cm, sparingly branched above, broadly winged, leafy almost to capitulum. Leaves more or less patent, grey- to white-tomentose, glabrescent; basal in a rosette and present at anthesis; lower cauline oblong or broadly lanceolate, sinuately lobed or lyrate; middle and upper cauline oblong-lanceolate, entire or pinnately lobed. Involucre 15-20 mm in diameter, ovoid; appendages with decurrent margin c. 2 mm wide, black or brown; fimbriae twice as long as the width of the margin, dark brown, with white apex. Pappus c. 1 mm. Open woods and scrub, mainly in the lowlands', usually calcicole. France and Italy', C. & S.E. Europe.