Hieracium rupestre, All.

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134. H. rupestre All. , Auct. FI. Pedem. 12 (1789)

( H. humilel picturn ).

Stems 5-25 cm, with more or less numerous simple eglandular hairs throughout and stellate and glandular hairs above. Leaves glabrous or subglabrous above, with rigid subplumose hairs and few minute glandular hairs on the margin, and softer, subpiumose and sometimes stellate hairs beneath; basal 10-50 x 3-15 mm, glaucous, obovate, ovate-lanceolate or spathulate, obtuse, denticulate to sinuate- or incise-dentate; cauline 0-1 (-2), small. Capitula 1—3(—5); peduncles very long, with stellate hairs, dense short glandular hairs and scattered simple eglandular hairs. Involucre 9-11 x 7-10 mm; bracts linearlanceolate, obtuse to acuminate, with stellate hairs which are dense on the margin, and more or less numerous simple eglandular and scattered glandular hairs. Stigmas more or less yellow. • S. W. Alps; C. Appennini. Ga It.

Other species in (xi):

H. barbulare Zahn in Engler, Pflanzenreich 76(IV.28O): 538 (1921) ( H. leiopogon / murorum ). • S.W. Alps. Ga.

H. leiophaeum Arvet-Touvet , Hier. Gall. Hisp. Cat. 287 (1913) ( H. pictum / hypochoeroides ). • S. W. Alps. Ga.

H. oreiocephalum Zahn in Engler, Pflanzenreich 76(IV.28O): 539 (1921) ( H. caesioides / schmidtii ). • S. W. Alps. Ga.

H. sandozianum Zahn in Koch, Syn. Deutsch. FI. ed. 3, 2: 1829 (1901) ( H. picturn / saxifragum ). • S.W. & W.C. Alps. Ga He.

(xii) Leaves rather large, the cauline few to rather numerous, evenly distributed, villous with crispate, subpiumose or plumose hairs throughout. Involucre villous with dense, long simple eglandular hairs, without stellate and usually without glandular hairs. Achenes 3-5-4 mm, dark. Margin of receptacular pits shortly dentate, glabrous.