Centaurea grisebachii subsp. paueijuga

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 : 274

(c) Subsp. paueijuga (Halácsy) Dostál , loc. cit. (1976)

( C. paueijuga Halácsy ):

Stems not more than 20 cm, branched at base. Lower leaves with 2-3 pairs of segments. Involucre 5-6 mm in diameter; appendages with wide auricles. C. Greece.

C. vermia Rech. fil. , Bot. Jahrb. 69: 526 (1939), from N. Greece (Vermion Oros), is like 95(a) but is puberulent throughout, has solitary capitula, involucre up to 8 mm in diameter and appendages with c. 7 fimbriae up to 1-8 mm long on each side; it is perhaps another subspecies of 95.