Dianthus degenii, Bald.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 199

64. D. degenii Bald. , Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. nov. ser., 6:27 (1899)

( D. deltoides var. serpyllifolius Borbas ).

Like 63 but leaves of nonflowering stems c. 5 mm, elliptical; of flowering stems usually 4 pairs, narrowly oblong; epicalyx-scales (2-)4, as long as calyx; calyx 8-10 mm. • Balkan peninsula. Al G r Ju. The distinction between 63 and 64 is not always clear-cut, and intermediate populations occur on mountains in Albania and the adjoining parts of Greece and Jugoslavia. These plants have been called D. oxylepis (Boiss.) Kümmerle & Jäv. , Balkan-Kutat. Tud. Eredm. 3: 233 (1926). It might perhaps be better to regard 64 as a subspecies of 63.