Staehelina arborea, Schreber

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 : 217

3. S. arborea Schreber , Icon. Deser. Pl. 1 (1766)

( S. arborescens L. ).

Stems up to 100 cm, the branches silvery-sericeous, with rosettes of leaves at the apices. Leaves ovate, entire, obtuse or subobtuse, dark green and glabrescent above, silvery-sericeous beneath; rosette-leaves 50-80x 35-55 mm, the petiole 25-40 mm; other leaves smaller, with shorter petioles or the upper sessile. Capitula in simple or compound corymbose cymes; involucre 15-20 x 5-7 mm; involucral bracts glabrous to sericeous, brown. Corolla pink. Achenes c. 4 x 2 mm, glabrous; pappus c. 15 mm. Limestone cliffs. • Kriti. Cr.