Hieracium bracteolatum

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 : 408-409

253. H. bracteolatum group. Stems (30-)60-90 cm, with simple eglandular hairs and few short glandular hairs in the upper part. Leaves up to 25, all cauline, glaucous, with short, subrigid simple eglandular hairs throughout and very few minute glandular hairs on the margin, the lower often aggregated in a false rosette, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse to acute, deeply sinuate with irregular patent lobes, sparsely dentate, attenuate into a broadly winged petiole, the upper rounded and sessile at the base. Capitula numerous in a large panicle; peduncles with numerous bracts, sometimes with a few stellate hairs. Involucre (7—)8—9(— 11) x 6-8 mm; bracts glabrous or with a few glandular, simple eglandular or stellate hairs. Ligules glabrous. Greece, just extending to S. Jugoslavia. Gr Ju.

Included species:

H. bracteolatum Sibth. & Sm. , FZ. Graec. Prodr. 2: 135 (1813). • Gr Ju. (xxxv) Usually hairy. Leaves all cauline, usually numerous, often aggregated below; margin not or only slightly thickened; upper leaves rounded or cordate at base, sometimes semiamplexicaul. Capitula usually numerous, in a large, often elongate panicle. Involucral bracts usually broadly linearlanceolate, more or less obtuse, glabrous or hairy, the outer sometimes slightly recurved. Ligules usually glabrous. Stigmas usually discoloured. Margins of receptacular pits usually distinctly fimbriate-dentate. Achenes dark brown or blackish.