Centaurea triumfetti subsp. cana, (Sibth. & Sm.) Dostal

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 : 299

(l) Subsp. cana (Sibth. & Sm.) Dostál , loc. cit. (1976)

( C. cana Sibth. & Sm. ):

Stems 3-20cm, simple, narrowly winged. Leaves white-tomentose, lyrately sinuately lobed or entire, rarely pinnatisect, oblong-lanceolate or the cauline narrowly lanceolate, shortly decurrent; upper linear-lanceolate. Involucre c. 15 mm in diameter, ovoid; appendages with decurrent margin c. 1 mm wide, dark brown; fimbriae 2-3 times as long as the width of the margin, silvery. Pappus 1-2 mm. Balkan peninsula', Krym.