Carduus micropterus, (Borbas) Teyber

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

6. C. micropterus (Borbas) Teyber , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 60: 308 (1910).

Up to 80 cm; stem densely arachnoid-hairy; wings up to 5 mm wide, undulate, triangular, with an apical spine up to 4 mm. Leaves densely arachnoid-hairy beneath, with crispate multicellular and a few unicellular hairs, with 8-12 approximate pairs of lobes, each with an apical spine up to 5 mm. Capitula 25-35 x 30-55 mm,subglobose; involucral bracts lanceolate-subulate, smooth; inner bracts obscurely 3- to 5-veined. Corolla 20-25 (-30) mm. Achenes 3-4mm, compressed; pappus 13-18mm. Dry places. • W. Jugoslavia and Albania’, C. & S. Italy. Al It Ju.