Crepis albanica, (Jav.) Babcock

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32. C. albanica (Jáv.) Babcock , Univ. Calif. Pubi. Bot. 22: 468 (1947)

(C. baldaccii subsp. albanica Jáv. ).

Perennial; stems 3-4, up to 35 cm, with 1-10 branches. Leaves glabrous or sparsely puberulent; basal 10-15 x 2-5-3 cm, numerous, oblanceolate, acute, deeply and irregularly runcinate-pinnatifid to lyratepinnate with a large, acutely dentate terminal lobe and acute, rapidly reduced, remote lateral lobes, narrowed at base; lower cauline like the basal; upper cauline linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Capitula few to numerous. Involucre 11-14x 7-9 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, the outer | as long as inner, canescenttomentose and with short glandular hairs, pubescent on inner face. Achenes 6-5-7-75 x 0-7-0- 8 mm, reddish-brown, fusiform, attenuate at apex, c. 20-ribbed. Calcareous rocks and screes. • N. Albania, S.E. Crna Gora. Al Ju.