Carduus granatensis, Willk.

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 : 222

2. C. granatensis Willk. , Linnaea 30: 113 (1859).

Perennial up to 70 cm. Stem arachnoid-hairy; wings up to 6 mm wide, palmate, with an apical spine up to 10 mm. Leaves with sinuate multicellular hairs beneath, with 8-10 pairs of triangular lobes, each ending in a spine up to 12 mm. Capitula 30-50 x 40-80 mm, distinctly umbilicate at base; peduncles smooth; outer and middle involucral bracts usually more or less imbricate downwards, slightly constricted | of way from base, 2-4 mm wide and orbicular-ovate at the base, lanceolate-subulate above, with the mid-vein raised in the distal | and tapering into a spine up to 4 mm; inner bracts longer than inner middle; middle bracts 12-20 mm. Achenes swollen, rugulose; apical prominence shortly stipitate. Mountain slopes', calcicele. • S. & S.E. Spain. Hs.