Echinops fontqueri, Pau

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 : 213

6. E. fontqueri Pau in Font Quer, Iter . Maroc. (Sched.) 409 (1928).

Stem 40-70 cm, simple, with glandular, arachnoid indumentum. Leaves lanceolate or elliptical in outline, pinnatifid, glandular-hairy; segments triangular or lanceolate, with short, slender spines. Inflorescence 4-7 cm in diameter, bluish. Involucre 22-26 mm; setae much shorter than the outer bracts; bracts 15-20, soft, serrulate, ciliate, more than | as long as the capitulum; outer bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, brownish; middle bracts green, with arachnoid indumentum. Corolla blue. Pappus-setae connate for basal half. S.E. Spain. Hs. (N. Africa.) Sect, echinops. Involucral bracts 16-25, in 3 rows, the inner free.