Centaurea carniolica, Host

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 : 292

185. C. carniolica Host , FI. Austr. 2: 517 (1831)

( C. rotundifolia (Bartl.) Hayek pro parte).

Perennial. Stems 50-80 cm, simple or with few long branches. Leaves grey-green, sparsely tomentose; lower broadly ovate, remotely dentate; upper ovatelanceolate, rounded or amplexicaul at base. Capitula solitary or in clusters. Involucre c. 13 x 7-8 mm, ovoid-cylindrical; appendages small, not covering bracts, triangular, black, pectinate-fimbriate, with 5-9 fimbriae 1-1-5 mm on each side, the inner appendages with a black spot in the centre. Florets pink, the outer radiate. Achenes 3 mm; pappus absent. • S.E. Alps, N. W. Jugoslavia, Hungary. Au Hu It Ju?Rm.