Macrotomia densiflora

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 : 89

1. M. densiflora (Ledeb. ex Nordm.) Macbride , Contr. Gray Herb. nov. ser., 48: 56 (1916)

( M. cephalotes (A. DC.) Boiss. ).

Perennial. Stock up to 7 x 4 cm, stout, erect or horizontal, covered with lanate bases of old leayes. Current basal leaves up to 10 x 2 cm, forming a rosette, lanceolate, acute, sessile, entire, with appressed hairs. Stem 15-20 cm, simple or branched above, erect, clothed with linear-lanceolate leaves and terminating in a cluster of cymes to form a dense head 5-10 cm in diameter. Calyx-lobes linear, acute, pectinate-setose. Corolla up to 3 cm; tube twice as long as calyx; limb 2 cm in diameter, patent, golden-yellow. Nutlets minutely pitted. Mountain rocks. S. Greece (Aroania Oros). Gr. (Anatolia.)