Hieracium praealtum, Vili

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 : 371

29. H. praealtum Vili , ex Gochnat, Tent. Pl. Cich. 17 (1808).

Stolons absent to very long and leafy, sometimes bearing a capitulum at apex. Rosette-leaves 30-180 x 5-12(-20) mm, oblanceolate, spathulate or narrowly elliptical, obtuse to acute, glabrous or with few to numerous, long, subrigid simple hairs on the margin and sometimes on the surfaces, sometimes with stellate hairs beneath. Flowering stems glabrous or with stellate hairs, simple eglandular hairs and glandular hairs, with 1—3(—9) leaves like those of the rosette but smaller. Inflorescence of few to many capitula usually in a cluster but sometimes with longer branches; peduncles with more or less dense stellate and few to numerous glandular and simple eglandular hairs. Involucral bracts 5-8-5 x 0-75-1 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, more or less acute, with more or less numerous stellate and simple eglandular and glandular hairs in various proportions. Ligules yellow, the outer sometimes with a red stripe on outer face. Much of Europe, but absent from many of the islands and from N. & E. Russia. Al Au Be Bu Co Cz Fe Ga Ge He Hs Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (B, C, W, K) Sa Su Tu [Br Но].

1 Stolons absent or very short

2 Peduncles and involucral bracts with more or less numerous glandular hairs, without or with few simple eglandular hairs

(a) subsp. praealtum 2 Peduncles and involucral bracts with numerous simple eglandular hairs, without or with few glandular hairs

(b) subsp. anadenium 1 Stolons long and slender, sometimes with a capitulum at the apex

3 Involucral bracts with numerous simple eglandular hairs, without or with few glandular hairs (c) subsp. bauhinii 3 Involucral bracts with numerous glandular hairs, without or with few to numerous simple eglandular hairs

(d) subsp. thaumasium