Valerianella uncinata, (Bieb.) Dufresne

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 : 52

22. V. uncinata (Bieb.) Dufresne , Hist. Nat. Méd. Fam. Valér. 60 (1811).

Up to 50 cm. Lower cauline leaves broadly spathulate-oblanceolate, obtuse, sinuate to dentate; middle pinnatifid; upper pinnatisect. Bracts green, the lower linear-spathulate, obtuse, auriculate at base, the upper narrowly triangular, acute. Fruits 3-5 mm, in lax, hemispherical to globose, terminal clusters, some of which fall as a whole, and also solitary in the lower dichotomies, oblong to flask-shaped, obtusely 4-angled, subglabrous to hirsute, with more or less davate hairs; sterile loculi reduced to slender ribs inflated at the base, separated by an ovate flat area. Calyx about as long as fruit, deeply divided into 6 narrowly triangular, rigid, patent, uncinate teeth, the tooth above the fertile loculus broader and sometimes 2-fid. E. Krym. Rs (K). (S. W. & S. C. Asia.)