Cephalaria anamurensis

Plant stout, erect, perennial, rhizomatous herbs, up to 1.5 m, simple, striate, covered with densely stellate hairy and retrorse hairy in lower part. Leaves coriaceous, densely stellate hairy; lower stem leaves simple, lanceolate, 35−55 × 3.5−4.5 cm, crenate-serrate, acuminate; cauline leaves simple or lyrate; simple leaves lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 10−30 × 1.5−5.5 cm, entire, acuminate; lyrate leaves lanceolate or broadly lanceolate in outline, 10−25 × 2−5 cm, with 2−3 segments, lateral segments lanceolate, 0.3−1.5 × 0.1−0.4 cm, entire, acute, terminal segment larger than lateral ones, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 8−22 × 2−5 cm, margins entire or crenate-serrate, acute; upper stem leaves simple, sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, 0.5−6 × 0.2−0.8 cm, entire, acuminate. Capitula globose, 25−50-flowered, 2−4 cm in diameter in flower, 2−3 cm in diameter in fruit. Involucral bracts ovate-orbicular to triangular-ovate, 3−7 × 2.5−6 mm, completely blackish or blackish in dorsal side and at apex, pubescent or adpressed pilose, margins ciliate, acute or subobtuse at apex; receptacular bracts oblanceolate, 8−13 × 2−4 mm, straw-coloured on dorsal side and base, blackish at apex, pubescent and adpressed pilose in dorsal side and apex, margins ciliate, acuminate at apex. Calyx cupuliform, 1−2 mm in diameter, with irregular teeth. Corolla cream or pale yellow, 8−15 mm long, densely adpressed hairy outside. Involucel 4-angled, 7−13 mm long in fruit, pilose, 4 long and 4 short teeth at apex; long teeth 3−4 mm long, short teeth 1−1.5 mm long. Flowering from July to August, fruiting from August to September.

Endemic.