Carlina tragacanthifolia, Klatt

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 : 209

2. C. tragacanthifolia Klatt , Leopoldina 20: 94 (1884)

( Atractylis conformis W. Barbey & Major ).

Plant white-tomentose throughout. Stems 15-20 cm, branched from the base, forming a fairly dense cushion. Leaves dimorphic, the earliest of each year’s growth oblanceolate, entire or somewhat pinnatifid, soft, without spines, the remainder c. 5 cm, narrowly linear, coriaceous, canaliculate, with a terminal spine and 2-3 lateral spines 12-15 mm on each side. Capitula 8-20 mm in diameter, terminal. Outer involucral bracts 20-50 mm, similar to the upper leaves; inner bracts c. 10 mm. Florets pale yellow. Karpathos. Cr. (Rhodos.)