Carduus broteroi, Welw. ex Coutinho

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 : 223

7. C. broteroi Welw. ex Coutinho , FZ. Port. 647 (1913).

Like 6 but stem less densely arachnoid-hairy, with flat, palmate wings, their lobes with apical spines up to 7 mm; leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate, sparsely arachnoid-hairy beneath, with 8-10 distant pairs of palmate lobes with acute lobules, each with an apical spine up to 10 mm; capitula 30-50 x 35-60 mm, deeply umbilicate at base; peduncles 1-2 mm in diameter; involucral bracts suberect to erect and recurved, not constricted, densely arachnoid-hairy, without setae, the outer 1-1-5 mm wide, the middle 2-2-5 mm wide, with mid-vein throughout, minutely verruculose in the proximal |-4; inner bracts 1.2 times as long as the inner middle; achenes 4-5 mm; pappus 18-22 mm. 2л = 20. Dry pastures and scrub', calcicole. • C. & S. Portugal, S. W. Spain. Hs Lu.