Valerianella dentata, (L.) Pollich

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

16. V. dentata (L.) Pollich , Hist. Pl. Palai. 1: 30 (1776)

( V. morisonii (Sprengel) DC. ).

Up to 3O(-5O) cm. Lower cauline leaves ovate-spathulate, obtuse, entire to sinuate; middle and upper narrowly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, entire to dentate, the uppermost coarsely toothed to pinnatifid at the base. Bracts toothed or auriculate at the base, green, with narrow, scarious margins, the lower linear-spathulate, obtuse, the upper narrowly triangular, acute. Fruits 1-2-5 mm, in numerous, small, fasciculate, terminal clusters and also solitary in the lower dicho­

tomies, falling separately, obpyriform, the side with sterile loculi flattened, subglabrous to densely hairy; sterile loculi reduced to ribs, separated by an ovate flat area. Calyx obliquely truncate, much shorter and narrower than the fruit, with unequal teeth, that over the fertile loculus acute. 2n= 16. Europe, northwards to N. England and S.E. Sweden, but absent from the U.S.S.R. except the south-west; casual elsewhere. All except Az Cr Fa Fe?Gr Is Lu Rs (N, B) Sb.