Knautia degenii, Borbas

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 : 67

47. К. degenii Borbás , Verh. Naturf. Ver. Brünn 33: 29 (1895).

Annual. Stem 20-60 cm, hirsute; peduncles glandular. Basal leaves in a rosette, denticulate, acute, hirsute, petiolate, undivided or pinnate; upper leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate. Capitula with 10-15 florets. Involucre more or less cyathiform or subcylindrical at anthesis; bracts (7—)8—10(—13) mm, 10-15, in 2-3 rows, lanceolate, with 7-9 prominent veins, shortly setose and with dark, long-stalked glands. Calyx cupuliform, 12- to 16- dentate. Corolla lilac to violet; marginal corollas with outer median lobe up to twice as wide as the lateral, the tube (4-5-)5- 6(-6-5) mm. Fruit hairy, with prominent involucel-teeth. Scrub and disturbed ground. Turkey-in-Europe (around Istanbul). Tu. (N. W. Anatolia.)