Centaurea triumfetti subsp. lingulata, (Lag.) Dostal

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 : 299-300

(m) Subsp. lingulata (Lag.) Dostál , loc. cit. (1976)

( C. lingulata Lag. ):

Stems 15-25 cm, simple, unwinged. Leaves grey-tomentose; lower oblong-spathulate, remotely dentate; cauline broadly linear, entire, erect. Involucre c. 13 mm in diameter, ovoid; appendages with decurrent margin c. 0*5 mm wide, brown; fimbriae 3 times as long as the width of the margin, silvery. Pappus c. 1*5 mm. C., S. & E. Spain, N.E. Portugal.

Subsp. (a) is very variable in leaf-shape; the characteristic shape is found in the Carpathians, and variants transitional to subsp. (k) are often found in the lowlands of E.C. Europe.

C. achtarovii Urum. , Magyar Bot. Lapok 19: 37 (1920) ( C. montana subsp. achtarovii (Urum.) Hayek), described from S.W.

Bulgaria (Pirin Pl.), is like 216(c) but has simple unwinged stems 1-10 cm, narrowly lanceolate leaves mostly confined to a basal rosette and long-pedunculate capitula. C. ternopoliensis Dobrocz. , Bot. Žur. 6(2): 71 (1949), described from W. Ukraine (near Ternopol’), is like 216(g) but has a thicker stem, entire or sinuately lobed, shortly decurrent, sometimes white-lanate leaves and black or dark brown fimbriae. C. epirota Halácsy , Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6: 581 (1898), from the W.C. part of the Balkan peninsula, is like 216(1) but has lyrate-pinnatisect leaves, the involucre 10-15 mm in diameter and appendages with decurrent margin 1-2 mm wide. The status of all these taxa is uncertain and further investigation is required.