Santolina oblongifolia, 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 : 145

1. S. oblongifolia Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(3): 18 (1856).

Plant sericeous. Non-flowering shoots long, semi-procumbent from a branched, woody stock, with short axillary shoots; flowering stems 15-30 cm, ascending, sparsely leafy below, leafless above, thickened below the solitary capitulum. Leaves erecto-patent, oblong-spathulate, flat, some pinnatifid with obtuse lobes, the upper on the flowering stems entire and softly mucronate, all narrowed into the petiole. Involucre 15-18 mm wide, subglabrous; bracts lanceolate, weakly carinate, the inner with rounded, lacerate-denticulate, scarious apex. Florets bright yellow. • Mountains of W.C. Spain. Hs.