Centaurea haynaldii, Borbas ex Vuk.

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 : 290

171. C. haynaldii Borbas ex Vuk. , Rad Jugosl. Akad. Znan. Umj. 58: 149 (1881)

( C. jacea subsp. haynaldii (Borbas ex Vuk.) Hayek ).

Perennial. Stems 20-60 cm, caespitose, erect, simple or with few short branches above. Leaves green above, fioccose and grey but becoming green beneath, undivided, ovate or ovatelanceolate, mucronate; lower petiolate; middle sessile, entire or remotely dentate; upper smaller, the uppermost crowded, subtending the capitula. Capitula solitary. Involucre 18-22 mm in diameter, globose; appendages 10 mm wide, covering the green, distinctly veined bracts, scarious, convex, greyish-brown, irregularly denticulate, muticous, with darker, blackish-brown, rarely white centre. Florets purple, the outer strongly radiate. Achenes 3-5 mm, pale greyish; pappus absent. • Mountains of Jugoslavia and N. Albania. Al?It Ju?Rm.

Subsp. julica (Hayek) E. Mayer in Lazar, Ad Annum Horti Bot. Labac. Solemn. CL 39 (1960), from N.E. Italy and N.W. Jugoslavia, differs from typical 171 chiefly in having broadly elliptical, pale green leaves and the involucre c. 25 mm in diameter, with lacerate appendages; its status is uncertain.