Knautia travnicensis, (G. Beck) Szabo

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 : 67

42. K. travnicensis (G. Beck) Szabó , Magyar Bot. Lapok 9: 51 (1910).

Perennial; stock sympodial, with lateral leaf-rosettes and flowering stems. Stem (20-)30-60(-80) cm, usually robust, with a basal leaf-rosette, retrorsely hispid or subglabrous; peduncles usually eglandular. Leaves subcoriaceous, shining, sparsely setose or glabrescent; lower usually 3-6 times as long as wide, usually undivided, ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, crenatedentate, petiolate; upper usually lyrate-pinnate, with 1—8(—12) lanceolate lateral lobes and a larger, ovate-lanceolate terminal lobe. Capitula 2-4 cm in diameter. Calyx cupuliform, (7-)8- to ll(-15)-awned. Corolla purple. 2л = 60. Limestone slopes. • Mountains of W. Jugoslavia. Ju.