Knautia lucana, 1976

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 : 64

17. K. lucana Lacaita & Szabó , Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. nov. ser., 29: 179 (1923).

Biennial or short-lived perennial; stock sympodial, usually without leaf-rosettes at anthesis. Stem up to 150 cm, fistular; lower internodes long, with brown-based setae up to 5 mm and sparsely pubescent; upper internodes hirsute and pubescent; peduncles glandular. Basal rosette-leaves soon withering, obovate-oblanceolate, hispid, yellowish-setose; cauline leaves ovate-lanceolate, crenate-serrate, undivided or pinnate with up to 8 lateral lobes in the lower and an ovate-acuminate terminal lobe, finely and sparsely hairy, the lowerpetiolate, the upper subamplexicaul. Capitula 2-5-3 - 5 cm in diameter. Calyx subpatelliform, 8-awned. Corolla purple. Mountain woods. • S. Italy (S.E. of Potenza). It.