Scorzonera mollis, Bieb.

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 : 319

3. S. mollis Bieb. , FI. Taur.-Cauc. 3: 522 (1819)

(inch S. rumelica Velen. ).

More or less densely arachnoid-tomentose or -lanate perennial 5-30 cm; rootstock vertical, tuberous-incrassate and obovoid to oblong-cylindrical. Stems solitary or few, simple or branched near the base, erect or ascending. Leaves 5-15 x 0-2-0-4(-0-6) cm, linear, acute, entire, sometimes undulate, dilated and semiamplexicaul at base, usually crowded in the lower or middle part of stem. Involucre 18-27 mm, up to 35 mm in fruit. Ligules (i-)li-li times as long as involucre, yellow, reddish outside. Achenes 13-20(-28) mm, cylindrical, glabrous, the outer with squamulose and the inner with smooth, weak ribs, pale brown, with a pale tubular base iA0—| as long as the rest of the achene. Pappus-hairs 1-1| as long as achene, plumose, dirty white. S.E. Europe. Al Bu?Cr Gr Ju Rm Rs (W, К, E).