Cephalaria leucantha, (L.) Roemer & Schultes

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 : 57

2. C. leucantha (L.) Roemer & Schultes , Syst. Veg. 3: 47 (1818)

( C. boetica Boiss. ).

Perennial herb up to 100 cm, with a woody stock. Leaves 5-20 x 3—8(—10) cm, pinnatisect, glabrous or sometimes hairy, with linear or lanceolate, dentate, crenate-dentate or lobed segments. Involucral bracts 5-7 x 2-5 mm, ovate, obtuse or subacute, appressed-pubescent. Receptacular scales 7-9 x 3-5 mm, obovate-lanceolate to spathulate, acute or subacute. Corolla 10-15 mm, yellow or white. Involucel c. 6 mm in fruit, 4-angled, with a dentate or entire, ciliate, scarious corona. 2« = 18. Dry, stony places. Mediterranean region, S. Portugal. Al Co Ga Gr Hs It Ju Lu Sa.

C. linearifolia Lange , Vid. Meddel. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kjobenhavn 1877-1878: 226 (1878), from the mountains of S. Spain (Sierra Nevada), resembles 2 but has longer, more or less entire or weakly lyrate or pinnatisect leaves, with few, entire, linear-lanceolate lobes. It should perhaps be treated as a distinct species but more information is required.