Hieracium lycopsifolium

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 : 409

256. H. lycopsifolium group ( H. prenanthoides / sabaudum ). Stems up to 100 cm, with numerous simple eglandular and stellate hairs and sometimes small glandular hairs at least above. Leaves 15-30, 5-100 x 5-30 mm, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptical, more or less acute, dentate, with few to numerous sometimes rigid simple eglandular hairs, the upper with few to numerous stellate hairs beneath, the lowest attenuate, subpetiolate, the remainder cordate-amplexicaul. Peduncles bracteate, with dense stellate hairs, few to numerous glandular hairs and usually some simple eglandular hairs. Involucre 9-10x5-8 mm; bracts with few to numerous stellate and glandular hairs and often a few simple eglandular hairs. Achenes sometimes pale brown. • Alps. Au Ga Ge He It.

Included species:

H. deltophyllum Arvet-Touvet , Hier. Alpes Fr. 120 (1888). Au Ga He.

H. lycopsifolium Froelich in DC., Prodr. 7: 224 (1838). Although this name has always been used for this group of plants in the aggregate sense, it has never been typified and it is uncertain to which of the segregates the name applies. Other species and groups in (xxxv):

H. borealiforme P. D. Sell & C. West , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 262 (1976) ( H. pseudoboreale (Naegeli & Peter) Zahn , non Grec.; H. porrifolium ] sabaudum ). 9 S.E. Alps. It Ju.

H. favratii Murat ex Gremii , Excurs.-Fl. Schweiz ed. 2, 273 (Wl$)( H.flagelliferum / prenanthoides ). • W. Switzerland. He.

H. hirsutum Bernh. ex Froelich in DC., Prodr. 7: 213 (1838) ( H. nobile / sabaudum ). • Pyrenees, S.C. France. Ga Hs.

H. pojoritense Wołoszczak , Magyar Bot. Lapok 3: 21 (1904) ( H. sabaudum / sparsum ). • E. Carpathians. Rm Rs (W).

H. pseudoboreale Grec. , Consp. FI. Roman. 375 (1898) ( H. pseudolaurinum Prodan ). • Romania. Rm.

H. pseudocorymbosum group ( H. lycopsifolium / umbellatum ). • S. W. Alps, Vosges. Ga He. (Including H. pseudocorymbosum Gremii , Neue Beitr. FI. Schweiz 3: 20 (1883). Ga He.)

H. subhirsutissimum Juxip , Not. Syst. (Leningrad) 19: 470 (1959). • Rs (B). (xxxvi) Leaves all cauline, 15-50(-numerous), not amplexicaul; margin revolute. Capitula l-25(-numerous), in large, sometimes elongate panicles, the upper part often more or less umbellate. Involucral bracts broadly linear-lanceolate, obtuse, usually glabrous, the outer squarrose with recurved apices. Ligules glabrous. Stigmas usually yellow. Margin of receptacular pits dentate or fimbriate-dentate. Achenes usually blackish.