Knautia baldensis, A. Kerner ex Borbas

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

19. K. baldensis A. Kerner ex Borbas , Acta Inst. Bot. Kolozsvár 1: 37,42 (1904).

Like 18 but stem 20-80 cm, the lower internodes often very short, sometimes less densely hairy; peduncles glandular or eglandular; leaves narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate, entire to subserrate, densely appressed-hairy (rarelyglabrescent) beneath, the upper rounded at base, sessile; calyx usually 7- to 9-awned; corolla reddish-purple. 2л = 40. Mountain meadows and woodland clearings. • S'. Alps (around Lago di Garda). It.

Glabrescent variants ( K. decalvata Borbas , op. cit. 42 (1904)) resemble 5 and 12.