Santolina viscosa, Lag.

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 : 145

3. S. viscosa Lag. , Gen. Sp. Nov. 25 (1816).

Plant glabrous or sparsely puberulent, glandular-viscid. Stems 15-40 cm, from a stout, ascending, much-branched stock; non-flowering shoots short, densely leafy; flowering stems paniculately branched, leafy almost up to the capitula, scarcely thickened at apex. Leaves crowded below, nearly all pectinate-pinnatisect, the lobes 2- ranked; uppermost leaves small, entire. Involucre 10-15 mm wide, subglobose; outer bracts ecarinate, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate; inner oblong, with wide, lacerate, scarious apex. Gypsaceous soils. • S.E. Spain. Hs.