Scorzonera baetica, (Boiss.) Boiss.

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 : 320

11. S. baetica (Boiss.) Boiss. , Voy. Bot. Midi Esp. 2: 382 (1841).

Perennial 20-50 cm, sparsely tomentose at base of stems and involucre and more or less throughout the leaves; rootstock vertical, cylindrical, not fibrous at apex. Stems solitary, stout, simple or with 1-2 branches at about the middle, leafy only near base or in lower part. Basal and lower cauline leaves 10-30 x 0-2-0-8 cm, linear to linear-lanceolate, folded and keeled, not undulate, long-attenuate at apex, widened and sheathing at base. Involucre 27-35 mm, up to 50 mm in fruit. Ligules c. 1| times as long as involucre, yellow, sometimes purplish outside. Achenes 17-22 mm, cylindrical, attenuate above, with smooth ribs or rarely the outer achenes with weakly squamate-rugose ribs, glabrous. Pappus-hairs about as long as achene, plumose, dirty white. S. W. Portugal, S. Spain. Hs Lu. (Morocco.)