Leontodon hellenicus, Phitos

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20. L. hellenicus Phitos , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 113: 272 (1966).

Perennial with branched stock and long rhizome. Stems up to 8 cm, simple, thickened at the apex, with numerous stellate hairs; bracts 1-2. Leaves up to 55 x 12 mm, spathulate or oblanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate, narrowed at base, subpetiolate, with dense, short stellate hairs on both surfaces. Capitulum solitary. Involucre 10-13 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, with stalked 2- to 5-fid hairs. Ligules yellow. Stigmas yellow. Pappus-hairs in 2 rows, the inner plumose, the outer shorter and scabrid. • C. Greece (Evritania). Gr.