Hieracium rectum

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 : 408

250. H. rectum group ( H. cordatimi / racemosum ). Stems 4-100 cm, with dense simple eglandular and numerous stellate hairs. Leaves 20-120 x 5-40 mm, crowded, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, dentate, with numerous simple eglandular hairs throughout, with few to numerous stellate hairs beneath and minute glandular hairs usually present on the margin, the lower leaves attenuate at the base, the remainder rounded atthe base. Capitula numerous, in an elongate panicle; peduncles with dense stellate and few to numerous glandular and simple eglandular hairs. Involucre 9-13 x 10-14 mm; bracts with numerous stellate hairs and dense unequal, yellow glandular hairs, without or with few simple eglandular hairs. Ligules with numerous simple eglandular hairs at apex. Stigmas sometimes yellow. • Pyrenees and adjacent hill-country. Ga Hs.

Included species:

H. dipsacifolium Arvet-Touvet , Spicil. Rar. Nov. Hier., Suppl. 2: 49 (1886). GaHs.

H. rectum Griseb. , Comment. Hier. 27 (1852). Although this name has always been applied to this group of species in the aggregate sense, it has never been typified and it isuncertain to which of the segregates the name applies.