Valerianella hirsutissima, Link

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 : 50

5. V. hirsutissima Link , Linnaea 9: 580 (1835).

Up to 15 cm. Lower cauline leaves narrowly spathulate to ovate, obtuse, entire to sinuate-dentate; middle spathulate-lanceolate, coarsely toothed; upper linear-lanceolate, pinnatisect at base. Bracts broadly ovate, scarious, ciliate. Fruits c. 3 mm, all in dense, globose, terminal clusters which fall as a whole, broadly ovoid, 4-angled, lanate; sterile loculi reduced to slender ribs extending to base of fruit, separated by an ovate, flat area. Calyx longer than fruit, hairy inside, divided almost to the base into 12-27 filiform, ciliate, uncinate teeth, united at the base by a broad, reticulately veined, hairy membrane. E. Greece, Kriti‘, Turkey-inEurope. Cr Gr Tu.