Eryngium kotschyi

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Rigid perennial with fibrous collars. Stems several, acutely branched above middle. Basal leaves persistent, coriaceous, glaucous, petiole often spiny near apex, lamina broadly cuneate-orbicular in outline, 6-13 cm long and broad, palmatisect into 5-7 elongate, remotely pinnatisect segments, all divisions being linear-lanceolate and almost parallel-veined, pungent, the terminal ones longer than the lateral ones . Median cauline leaves similar but with a short sheathing spiny-margined petiole; those of the inflorescence mostly tripartite. Inflorescence amethyst, ± densely paniculate, stout; capitula 8-20, depressed-globose, 10-23 mm diam. Bracts 6-15, unequal, ± recurved, broader and stouter than in E. billardieri, the outer ones 5-7-nerved and with 1-4 pairs of distant thicker teeth. Bracteoles entire, longer than sepals. Mericarps as in E. billardieri. Fl. 7-9. Stony slopes and limit of Cedrus forest, 1100-2250 m.

Endemic. E. Medit. element?