Carduus ramosissimus, Pancic

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 : 224

13. C. ramosissimus Pančič , Elench. Pl. Vase. Crna Gora 51 (1875).

Biennial up to 75 cm. Stem sparsely arachnoid-hairy; wings up to 10 mm wide, triangular-dentate, with an apical spine up to 7 mm. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to -oblanceolate, glabrous above, with very sparse multicellular hairs beneath, with 10-14 pairs of triangular-dentate lobes, each with an apical spine up to 8 mm. Capitula 15-25 x 10-20 mm, sessile, usually in terminal clusters of 3-5; outer and middle involucral bracts patent or recurved, 1-1-5 mm wide, linear-subulate, the mid-vein raised in the distal |, smooth, glabrous; inner bracts Ц times as long as the inner middle, 3-veined at apex. Corolla 15-17 mm. Achenes 3-4 mm; pappus 11-13 mm. Serpentine rocks. • Mountains of S. W. Jugoslavia and N. Albania. Al Ju.