Centaurea musarum, Boiss. & Orph.

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

170. C. musarum Boiss. & Orph. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(5): 112 (1856).

Perennial. Stems up to 20 cm, caespitose, procumbent, the apex ascending, simple or sparingly branched, leafy up to the inflorescence. Leaves appressed-hairy, greyish-green; lower shortly petiolate, pinnatifid, with oblanceolate to ovate segments, entire or lobed, the upper pinnatisect; uppermost lyrately lobed or entire, oblong. Capitula solitary. Involucre 20-25 mm in diameter, subglobose; appendages orbicular, covering bracts, convex, with ovate, blackish-brown central spot, the margin broadly white-membranous, erose-denticulate, the apex obtuse, muticous. Florets yellow, the outer somewhat patent. Achenes c. 3 mm, pale; pappus as long as or up to twice as long as achene. Mountain rocks. • S. C. Greece (Parnassos). Gr.