Dipsacus comosus, Hoffmanns. & Link

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 : 59

5. D. comosus Hoffmanns. & Link , FZ. Port. 2: 81 (1820).

Stems 30-270 cm, stout, erect, prickly on the angles. Basalleaves in a rosette, sessile, sinuate; cauline leaves sessile, pinnatipartite, the upper linear, entire, connate at base, prickly beneath. Capitula 4-6 cm, ovoid-cylindrical. Involucral bracts lanceolatesubulate, with apical spine, distantly prickly on margins and midrib beneath, somewhat curved upwards, much exceeding florets. Outer receptacular scales lanceolate, densely arachnoidhairy and ciliate, with long, slightly curved, flexible apical spine, equalling florets; inner sometimes like the involucral bracts.

Corolla pinkish. Achenes 4-5 mm, blackish-brown, sulcate. Dry, stony places. S. half of Iberian peninsula. Hs Lu.