Cephalaria gazipashensis

Ssp gazipashensis: Gazi pelemiri; Ssp pilifera: Saçaklı pelemir

Sturdy, ascending-erect perennial, 70-100 cm, branched from base, with short woody caudices, Stem glabrous or minutely puberulent below, glabrous above. Leaves coriaceous, reticulate rugose, sparsely pilose on mid-vein and margin, leaves simple, entire or serrate; basal and median cauline leaves lanceolate, 6-13 x 1-2.5 cm; upper cauline leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, 2-7 x 0.1-0.4 cm, Capitula 0.7-1.4 cm diam., ovoid. Flowers 15 mm, lilac, densely ± adpressed pilose outside. Involucral bracts broadly ovate; receptacular bracts ovate-oblong, acute; both straw-coloured and ciliate on margins. Involucel 2-3 mm, sparsely pilose, with 4 short and 4 long apical teeth. Fl. 7. Pinus nigra forest, 1300-1450 m.

1. Leaves coriaceous, reticulate-rugose, glabrous or sparsely hirsute especially on veins and margin; lamina of basal and lower stem leaves lanceolate, to 40-60 × 15-18  mm; petiole of most leaves longer than lamina; involucral bracts glabrous or with a few and thin, adpressed hairs; peduncle below capitulum completely glabrous .  subsp. gazipashensis

– Leaves soft-textured to subcoriaceous, ± densely hairy with a clearly heterotrichous indumentum consisting of soft, spreading hairs on both surfaces and longer setae along midvein and margin; lamina of basal and lower stem leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, to 30-60 × 20-32 mm; petiole as long as or distinctly shorter than lamina; involucral bracts densely spreading-pilose by soft hairs; peduncle below capitulum spreading-pilose with a mixture of dense, short hairs and much longer and coarser setae. . .  . subsp. pilifera

Endemic. E. Medit. element.