Scabiosa sphaciotica, 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 : 70

9. S. sphaciotica Roemer & Schultes , Syst. Veg. 3: 86 (1818).

Caespitose perennial, woody at base. Stem 3-10 cm, slender, leafless or with 1 pair of leaves at base. Leaves up to 20 x c. 5 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, pinnatifid, with broadly elliptical lobes, white-lanate or green and densely hirsute. Capitula 10-15 mm in diameter, solitary, with c. 8(—13) florets. Involucral bracts 4-5 mm, c. | as long as florets, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, densely white-pubescent. Involucel-tube c. 1-5 mm; pits c. 0-6 mm; corona with 25-30 veins. Calyx-setae about twice as long as corona. Corolla of marginal florets 6-10 mm, distinctly longer than that of the central, lilac-pink. Anthers c. 1-5 mm. Mountain screes. • Kriti. Cr.