Abstract
This new species grows in the Pre-Pyrenees (Iberian Peninsula) and belongs to Centaurea section Lepteranthus. These populations have been reported twice till date and were identified once as C. emigrantis and once as C. pectinata. Morphological data reveal that these individuals should be described as a new species.
Acknowledgements
This study was supported by the Italian MIUR (Ministero del'Istruzione, Università e Ricerca), by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (project CGL2006–01765/BOS), and by the Catalan Government (‘Ajuts a Grups de Recerca Consolidats’ 2005/SGR/00344), and constitutes part of the PhD program of J.L.-A. We thank N. Garcia-Jacas for her help with laboratory procedures, J. Vigo for his help with Latin diagnosis and G. Guinard, curator of herbarium LY, J.C. Grouard from herbarium P, N. Ibáñez and N. Nualart from herbarium BC, for their help with herbarium materials.