Cirsium morinifolium, Boiss. & Heldr.

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 : 235

5. C. morinifolium Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., FI. Or. 3: 530 (1875).

Biennial 30-100 cm. Stem much-branched, crispatepubescent. Leaves glabrous or sparsely arachnoid-hairy beneath; lobes narrowly triangular to linear-triangular, with stout apical spine 7-11 (-15) mm. Capitula numerous, in a much-branched panicle or corymb, with 8—12 squarrose-spiny subtending leaves 2-4 times as long as capitulum. Involucre (15-)20-25 x 17-30 (-35) mm, sparsely arachnoid-hairy to -lanate, rarely subglabrous; bracts patent, the middle ones gradually narrowed to the nearly smooth apex, with apical spine 1-2 mm. Corolla 20-26 mm, white. Pappus 16-20 mm. • Kriti. Cr.