Scorzonera crocifolia, Sibth. & Sm.

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13. S. crocifolia Sibth. & Sm. , FI. Graec. Prodr. 2: 123 (1813).

Perennial 15-45 cm, subglabrous or arachnoid-lanate at base of stems and leaves; rootstock vertical, cylindrical, stout, not fibrous at apex. Stems solitary or few, slender, rigid, usually with 1-3 branches near the base, erect, sparsely leafy below. Basal leaves 7-25 x O-l-O-3(~O-6) cm, grass-like, rigid, densely crowded, with prominent erect sheaths. Involucre 15-30 mm; outer bracts as long as inner. Ligules l |-2 times as long as bracts, yellow, often reddish outside. Achenes 15-20 mm, cylindrical, the outer with scabrid to squamate ribs, the inner with smooth ribs. Pappus-hairs about as long as achene, plumose, dirty white. 2л = 14. Dry, rocky places. • C. & S. Greece and Aegean region. Gr.

S. serpentinica Rech. fil. , Anzeig. Akad. Wiss. (Wien) 93: 102 (1956), described from serpentine rocks on Evvoia , has more flaccid, less strongly veined leaves with scarcely crowded and much less prominent sheaths; it is also very similar to 15, and its status and relationships are uncertain.