Dianthus crassipes, R. de Roemer

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 197

45. D. crassipes R. de Roemer , Linnaea 25:11 (1852).

Robust perennial with a stout woody stock; stems 30-60 cm, puberulent, robust, terete. Cauline leaves 2-2-5 mm wide, rigid, acute, puberulent; sheaths as long as the diameter of the stem. Flowers usually 20-30, subsessile in dense corymbose heads; bracts broadly scarious, with a green point, about as long as the flowers. Epicalyx-scales 4, little shorter than the calyx, lanceolate, similar to the bracts but more abruptly and finely acuminate. Calyx 18-25 mm, narrowed above. Petal-limb 7-9 mm, dentate, bearded, purple. © S.C. Spain (Sierra Morena, Sierra de Alcaraz). Hs.