Verbascum banaticum, Schrader

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 215

81. V. banaticum Schrader , Monogr. Verbasci 2: 28 (1823).

Biennial; stems 50-100 cm, sparsely tomentose, more or less glabrescent. Basal leaves 10-30 x 3-12 cm, oblong-obovate, deeply and irregularly crenate and usually pinnately lobed towards the shortly cuneate base, persistently tomentose beneath, more or less glabrescent above; petiole 4-10 cm. Inflorescence freely branched, lax; fascicles with 1-6 flowers. Bracts 3-10 mm, the lower ovate-cordate, the upper lanceolate; longer pedicels 3-10 mm. Calyx 2-5-4 mm; lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla 15-22 mm in diameter. Stamens 5; anthers all reniform; filament-hairs white or yellow. Capsule 3-4 mm, ellipsoid- subglobose. • S.E. Europe, eastwards to S.W. Ukraine. Al Bu G r Ju Rm Rs (W) Tu.