Hieracium waldsteinii

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 : 390

146. H. waldsteinii group. Stems 25-50 cm, with very dense, more or less plumose hairs below, less dense hairs above, sometimes with a few stellate hairs. Leaves 20-140 x 5-60 mm, all cauline but sometimes crowded near base or the basal withered at anthesis, more or less numerous, obovate or more or less elliptical, obtuse or subacute, entire or nearly so, long-attenuate at base, villous with dense plumose hairs, the lower sometimes petiolate, the upper bract-like. Capitula (2-)4-7(-25) in a lax panicle; peduncles long, with more or less numerous stellate hairs, sometimes with minute glandular or simple eglandular hairs or with both. Involucre 9-13 x 9-13 mm; bracts broadly linear-lanceolate, more or less acute, with few to numerous stellate hairs, few minute glandular hairs, often numerous longer glandular hairs and sometimes a few simple or subpiumose eglandular hairs. Ligules glabrous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes pale or yellowish-brown. 2« = 27, 36. • Balkan peninsula, from N. W. Jugoslavia to N.C. Greece. Al Gr Ju.

Included species:

H. delpinoi Bald. , Malpighia 6: 113 (1892). Al Gr Ju.

H. plumulosum A. Kerner , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 24: 170 (1874). C. & S. W. Jugoslavia. Ju.

H. suborieni (Zahn) P. D. Sell & C. West , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 267 (1976) ( H. waldsteinii subsp. suborieni Zahn ). Al Ju.

H. waldsteinii Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 11 (Ergänz. 1): 65 (1828). C. & N. W. Jugoslavia. Ju.