Valerianella turgida, (Steven) Betcke

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 : 51

13. V. turgida (Steven) Betcke , Animadv. Bot. Valer. 14 (1826).

Up to 25(-40) cm. Lower cauline leaves broadly spathulate to ovate, obtuse, entire to sinuate; middle and upper ovate-spathu- late to lanceolate, entire to remotely sinuate-dentate. Bracts oblong-spathulate, obtuse, green, with scarious auricles. Fruits c. 3 mm, usually all in dense, globose, terminal clusters, hemi­ spherical, obtusely 3-angled, as wide as long, falling separately, sparsely hairy to pubescent; sterile loculi much larger than the fertile, separated by an ovate-orbicular, flat, scarious area. Calyx reduced to an indistinct tooth above the fertile loculus. S.E. Europe. Bu Cr Gr It Ju Rm Rs (W, K) Tu.