Verbascum orygale

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Biennial, 70-200 cm, finely adpressed greyish stellate-tomentose, glabrescent above, eglandular. Stem robust, terete or obtuse-angled above, branched. Basal leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 10-30 x 1,5-10 cm, obscurely crenulate to entire, acute, petiole 2-6 cm; cauline similar but smaller, upper broadly ovate to orbicular, acuminate, auriculate at base. Inflorescence with numerous long, slender rod-like branches, with loose clusters of 2-7 flowers. Bracts linear-lanceolate, subulate. Pedicels to 5 mm; bracteoles subulate. Calyx 1,5-3 mm, lobes linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla yellow, 15-20 mm diam., without pellucid glands, stellate-tomentose outside. Stamens 5, anthers reniform, filaments with whitish-yellow wool up to anthers. Capsule elliptic-cylindrical, obtuse or emarginate, 3.5-5 x 1.5-2 mm, stellate-tomentose, glabrescent. Fl. 4-8. Pinus forest, Quercus scrub, limestone rocks, s.l.-1500 m.

Endemic. E. Medit. element.