Valerianella puberula, (Bertol. ex Guss.) DC.

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 : 51-52

20. V. puberula (Bertol. ex Guss.) DC. , Prodr. 4: 627 (1830).

Up to 40 cm. Lower cauline leaves ovate-spathulate, obtuse, entire to sinuate; middle and upper narrowly ovate to oblonglanceolate, entire to dentate, the uppermost coarsely dentate to pinnatifid at base. Bracts dentate or auriculate at base, green, with narrow, scarious margins, the lower linear-spathulate, obtuse, the upper narrowly triangular, acute. Fruits c. 1 -5 mm, in numerous, small, fasciculate, terminal clusters and also solitary in the lower dichotomies, falling separately, ovoid-globose, 3-angled, densely villous; sterile loculi smaller than the fertile,

contiguous. Calyx shortly 2-lipped, the lip above the fertile loculus broadly ovate-acuminate, entire to obscurely 3-dentate, the lip above the sterile loculi about half as long, crest-like, 3-dentate. S. Italy (Calabria), Sicilia. It Si. (N. Africa.)