Hieracium lucidum, Guss.

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 : 407

245. H. lucidum Guss. , Ind. Sem. Horto Boccad. 1825: 6 (1825).

Sterns 10-30 cm, ascending, flexuous, with stellate and short glandular hairs particularly above. Leaves 12-20, 15-100x4-45 mm, coriaceous, glabrous or with a few glandular or simple eglandular hairs on the margin, the lower large, crowded, narrowed to a winged, semiamplexicaul petiole, the upper much smaller, broadly ovate, elliptical or lanceolate, acute or mucronate, often plicate, entire or remotely denticulate, sessile. Capitula 3-10(-40) in a narrow compact panicle; peduncles bracteate, with numerous stellate and slender, unequal glandular hairs. Involucre 11-15 x 8-11 mm; bracts pale green, with few stellate and few to dense yellowish, unequal, slender glandular hairs. Ligules glabrous. 2л = 18. Calcareous rocks. • N.W. Sicilia. Si.

Other species in (xxxii):

H. symphytifolium Froelich in DC., Prodr. 7: 232 (1838) ( H. siculum Guss. ; H. lucidum / racemosum ). 2n = 36. • Sicilia. Si.

(xxxiii) Leaves usually all cauline, usually numerous, often crowded in a false rosette towards the base, at least the upper more or less amplexicaul, often with minute glandular hairs on the margin. Capitula few to numerous, in a large panicle. Involucre (9—)11—15 mm; bracts broadly linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with sparse to dense hairs. Ligules glabrous or with few simple eglandular hairs at apex. Stigmas usually discoloured. Margins of receptacular pits dentate. Achenes grey, yellowish, pale brown or reddish-brown.