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spinoso - dentata semiauriculato - semiamplexicaulia sessilia, ambitu oblonga vel lanceolate - oblonga alte 
et remote sinuato - pinnatifida , laciniis ad medium circiter vel ad basin fere inaequaliter bifidis, lobis 
lanceolatisfpaullatim acuminatis raro subobtusis, margine plus minusve revolutis spinuloso - ciliatis, 
spina valida straminea 3 — 10 mm longa terminatis; caulina superiora et suprema vix minora, ambitu 
lanceolata magis remote sinuato-pinnatifida, spinis longioribus nec non validioribus armata. 
Capitula in apice caulis et ramorum solitaria, raro 2—3 approximata, bracteis numerosissimis 
saepe subduplo vel duplo longioribus foliis supremis simillimis sufFulta, ovato -globosa vel globosa 
3— 5Jcm diam. Involucri parce arachnoidei foliola exteriora e basi ovato-oblonga lanceolata vel lineari- 
lanceolata, a medio erecto - patentia , apicem versus paullatim in ligulam lanceolatam, margine plus 
minusve fimbriate - ciliatam in spinulam terminalem 2 — 6 mm longam stramineam infirmam vel sub- 
validam attenuatam dilatata. Corollae purpureae raro albidae limbus ad medium circiter inaequaliter 
quinquefidus , laciniis linearibus angustissimis subobtusis , a tubo satis vel vix distinctus eoque duplo 
vel subduplo brevior. Pappus sordide albus, setis plumosis apice saepe tantum scariosis. Achaenia 
matura oblonga, 3—4^/2 mm longa, 2 — 2^/2 lata, nitida, vario colore, saepe obscure striata. Bienne. 
Floret Julio-Septembri. 
Synonyma : 
Cirsium odontolepis var.: Cirsium montenegrinum Beck et Szyszyl., Plant. Cernagor. et Alban, p. 154 
(1888). — Szyszyl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Franc. XXXVI, p. 123 (1889) — Horak in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 
L. p. 162 (1900). 
? Cirsium decussatum Pane, in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. XVII. p. 169 (1867). 
? Cirsium eriophorum Pane, Elench. plant. Crna Grora p. 50 (1875). — Form, in sched. 1891. 
— Ueskiib ! 
Cirsium odontolepis Vel., Flor. Bulg. p. 293 (1891) p. p. 
Cirsium ligulare ssp. albanum Wettst. , Beitr. Flor. Alban, in Bibl. Bot. XXVI. p. 171 (1892). — 
Vel. in Sitzb. kgl. böhm. Ges. Wiss. Prag. 1894, p. 18 (1895). — Vel., Flor Bulg. Suppl. p. 164 (1898). 
— Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXVII. p. 168 (1899). Korthiati ! — Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. 
Brünn XXXVIII. p. 200 (1900). — flagios Athanasios ; Livadi! — Vand., Reliqu. Form. p. 329 (1909). 
Cirsium ligulare Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXI. p. 120 (1893) — Vladaja ! XXXII. 
p. 162 (1894) — Muzinci! 
Cirsium armatum Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXI. p. 119 (1893) — Knezevo ! 
Cirsium ligulare var. latifoUum Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXIV. p. 304 (1896) — 
Vrcenovac! — Vand., Reliqu. Form. p. 329 (1909). 
Cirsium Pelii Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXIV. p. 303 (1896) — Pelion! plant, ad 
ssp. armatum spectat! — Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXV. p. 170 (1897) — Katasara! — 
Vand., fleliqu. Form. p. 329 (1909). 
Cirsium ahruptum Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXVI. p. 62 (1898) — Belovo! — Vand., 
Reliqu. Form. p. 329 (1909). 
Cirsium validum var. rumelicum Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXVI. p. 62 (1898) — 
Jundol! — Form, in sched. - Bjela Crkva! — Vand., Reliq. Form. p. 327 (1909). 
Cirsium latinervium var. dilatatum Form, in Verb, naturf. Ver. Brünn XXXVII. p. 168 (1899) — 
Drziu! — Vand. Reliqu. Form. p. 327 (1909). 
Icones: Wettst., Beitr. Flor. Alban, in Bibl. Bot. XXVI. tab. V. fig 23 (1892). 
Exsiccata: Baldacci, Iter albanicum septimum Nr. 376, Iter albanicum octavum Nr. 85. — 
Heldreich, Iter Thessalicum Nr. 62 sub C. odontolepide. — Schneider, Iter balcanicum 1907, Nr. 1053 
sub C. eriophoro. — Sintenis, Iter thessalicum 1896, Nr. 1334 sub. C. Pelii. 
Distribatio: In ruderatis, pratis sterilibus, ad viarum margines praesertim in regione media 
et subalpina peninsulae Balcanicae centralis frequens. 
