Onopordum majorii, Beauverd

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 : 248

13. O. majorii Beauverd , Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève ser. 2, 6: 152 (1914).

Plant up to 150 cm. Stem whitish-arachnoid-hairy; wings up to 8 mm wide, triangular-acuminate, with 3- to 5-palmate spines, with apical spine up to 15 mm. Leaves up to 45 x 15 cm, lanceolate, sessile, pinnatisect or almost pinnate, greyish-green, sparsely hairy and glandular above, densely greyish-tomentulose beneath; lobes triangular-acute, deeply lobulate, with apical spine up to 10 mm. Capitula 45-50 x 70-80 mm, hemispherical, glabrous; involucral bracts 5-8 mm wide at base, the outer and middle deflexed, with wide fimbriate-spiny apex, the apical spine up to 10 mm, caudate, the other spines 1-3 mm. Corolla 35-50 mm, purple. Achenes 6-7 mm; pappus 9-14 mm. Karpathos, E. Kriti. Cr.