Centaurea leucophaea subsp. brunnescens

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 : 277

(a) Subsp. brunnescens (Briq.) Dostál , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 200 (1976)

( C. paniculata subsp. leucophaea час. brunnescens Briq.):

Involucre 7-10 x 6-9 mm, ovoid, rounded at base, not spotted: bracts ovate, smooth; appendages small, pale brown, with mucronate apex and a narrow, brown margin, the fimbriae c. 1 mm, c. 6 on each side. Pappus c. | as long as achene. N. W. Italy, just extending into S.E. France.