Senecio eubaeus, Boiss. & Heldr.

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22. S. eubaeus Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(3): 36 (1856).

Perennial 20-60 cm. Stockshort. Stems erect, branched only in inflorescence, white-arachnoid-lanate at least above. Basal and lower cauline leaves 7-15x2-3 cm, oblonglanceolate, sparsely to densely arachnoid-lanate, more or less petiolate, entire or obscurely repand-dentate; upper sessile, subamplexicaul. Capitula 3-6, c. 40 mm in diameter, in a lax corymb. Involucre 12-18 mm, densely white-lanate, with 8-15 supplementary bracts as long as the involucre. Ligules 12-18, 12-18 mm, yellow. Achenes c. 6 mm, the inner glabrous, the outer hairy. Mountain rocks. • E. Greece (Evvoiaf Gr. S. castagneanus DC. , Prodr. 6: 354 (1838), from S.W. Asia, has once been recorded from Turkey-in-Europe; it is like 22 but has less densely lanate or glabrescent stems, glabrous leaves, sparsely lanate, greenish involucre with 15-20 supplementary bracts, ligules 10-14 mm and sometimes all the achenes hairy.