Centaurea pannonica, (Heuffel) Simonkai

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 : 290

175. C. pannonica (Heuffel) Simonkai , Math. Term. Közl. 24: 620 (1891)

(C. angustifolia Schrank , non Miller).

Perennial. Stems 30-100 cm, 1-3, erect or ascending, branched at or above the middle, the branches virgate, erecto-patent, long. Leaves scabrid, green or sparsely hairy, glabrescent; basal dead at anthesis, lanceolate, entire, rarely lobed; cauline linear to lanceolate, entire to pinnately lobed. Capitula solitary or in dense corymbs. Involucre c. 15 x 10-12 mm, ovoid-globose or -cylindrical; appendages orbicular, almost covering the appressed bracts, with blackish- or yellowish-brown centre, the margin white or pale reddish-brown, entire, lacerate or irregularly denticulate, muticous. Florets pink, the outer radiate. Achenes c. 3 mm, greyish-brown; pappus absent. 2« = 22, 44. C. & S.E. Europe. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge He Hu?It Ju Po Rm Rs (C, W, K, E). Intermediates between 175 and 178 from E.C. Europe have been described as C. jacea subsp. jungens Gugler , Mitt. Bayer. Bot. Ges. 1: 406 (1904). Intermediates also occur between 175 and 174, and between 175 and 172, as well as between 175 and various other species of Sect. Jacea and Lepteranthus .