Senecio boissieri, DC.

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 : 195

10. S. boissieri DC. , Prodr. 7: 300 (1838).

Dwarf, caespitose perennial with branched, woody stock and simple, slender, sericeous scapose stems 5-12 cm, each with few, distant, linear bracts and a single capitulum. Leaves up to 3 cm, with cuneateobovate lamina attenuate into a petiole, distally incise-crenate, more or less sericeous especially beneath. Capitula 12-15 mm in diameter; involucral bracts 12-15, lanceolate, obtuse; supplementary bracts few and small. Ligules absent; tubular florets reddish. Achenes c. 2 mm, hairy. 2л = 40. Mountain rocks. • 5. Spain (Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Segura). Hs.