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Perennial herb up to 50 cm, rosette-forming. Stem erect, white tomentose, with few branches above. Rosette leaves lyrate, 1-2 pinnatisect, white tomentose to arachnoid-hairy 9-30 cm long, 3-12 cm large. Cauline leaves 1-2 pinnatisect, with sinuate margins, white tomentose, 4-7 mm long, 3-4 mm large. Branch leaves entire, 5-10 mm
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3-6 mm. Capitula in clusters of 2-7. Peduncles 1-3 mm wide, with sparse leaves. Involucre ovoid, 11-15
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11-16 mm; bracts ovate-lanceolate, glabrescent to arachnoid-hairy, with 7-9 nerves on the back. Appendages dark brown to black, shortly decurrent at the base, fimbriate. Appendages below the fimbria, with a 1-1.5 mm wide margin. Fimbriae 6-9 on each side, 1-2 mm long. Florets pink-violet, 12-18 mm long. Achenes light brown, 3.8-4.7 mm long, 1.5-2.1 mm wide. Pappus white, 1.5-2.0 mm long. (Fig.
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Herba perennis, tomentosa, foliis 1-2 pinnatipartitis, incanis. Corymbus 2-7 capitulis; involucra ovata, 11-15
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11-16 mm. Appendices fuscae vel nigrae; fimbriae 6-9 utroque latere, 1-2 mm longae. Flosculi roseo-lilacini; achenia luteo-brunnea 3.8-4.7
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1.5-2.1 mm; pappus albus 1.5-2 mm longus.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">Etymology</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">The specific epithet refers to the &quot;Valdemone Mountains&quot;, the name used since Middle Ages up to the 19th Century for the NE Sicilian range where the species here described was found.</paragraph>
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As known so far,
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occurs in a single population northeast Sicily, on the Nebrodi Mountains; but it is not excluded that the mountain complex may host other subpopulations.
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The known locality is found between 1,200 and 1,300 m a.s.l. Like other representatives of the
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complex,
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occurs on carbonate rocky habitat, with
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Nyman,
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L.,
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L.,
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L.,
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L.,
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Boiss. &amp; Reut.,
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,
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etc.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">The population of Rocche del Crasto includes about 300 mature individuals and extends for about 7000 m2. The plants that grow in the lower part of the cliff are subject to cow grazing.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">Hemicryptophyte rosulate with chasmophyte habit, flowering and fruiting from June to August.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">Taxon discussion</paragraph>
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The new species here described is well differentiated from the other species of the
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Asteraceae" genus="Centaurea" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Centaurea busambarensis" order="Asterales" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="busambarensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">Centaurea busambarensis</emphasis>
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complex (Table
<tableCitation captionStart="Table 2" captionStartId="T8177765" captionText="Table 2. Diagnostic characters between the species of the Centaurea busambarensis complex. VAL: C. valdemonensis; BUS: C. busambarensis; ERY: C. erycina; PAN: C. panormitana; AEG: C. aegusae; THY: C. thyrrena; TOD: C. todaroi; SEG: C. seguenzae; SAC: C. saccensis." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/765CCDDC2FF3FC3AF3BA8D79D32D67F5" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" tableUuid="765CCDDC2FF3FC3AF3BA8D79D32D67F5">2</tableCitation>
). The most related species is
<taxonomicName lsidName="C. busambarensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" rank="species" species="busambarensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">C. busambarensis</emphasis>
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. The two species are, anyway, easily distinguishable by the shape of rosette leaves 1-2 pinnatisect with apical lobe slashed in
<taxonomicName lsidName="C. valdemonensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" rank="species" species="valdemonensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">C. valdemonensis</emphasis>
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and one pinnatisect with apical lobe almost entire in
<taxonomicName lsidName="C. busambarensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" rank="species" species="busambarensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">C. busambarensis</emphasis>
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(
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Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F8177758" captionText="Figure 7. Capitulum in Centaurea valdemonensis (a) and C. busambarensis (b); rosette leaves in C. valdemonensis (c) and C. busambarensis (d)." figureDoi="10.3897/BDJ.10.e91505.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/749984" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">7</figureCitation>
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). In addition, the appendage of the median capitula bracts is shorter (2 mm) with shorter fimbriae (1-2 mm long) in
<taxonomicName lsidName="C. valdemonensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" rank="species" species="valdemonensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">C. valdemonensis</emphasis>
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than in
<taxonomicName lsidName="C. busambarensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" rank="species" species="busambarensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">C. busambarensis</emphasis>
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(3 mm long, with fimbriae 2.5-3 mm long) (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F8177758" captionText="Figure 7. Capitulum in Centaurea valdemonensis (a) and C. busambarensis (b); rosette leaves in C. valdemonensis (c) and C. busambarensis (d)." figureDoi="10.3897/BDJ.10.e91505.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/749984" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">7</figureCitation>
). The shape of the rosette leaves is similar, in some ways, to that of
<taxonomicName lsidName="C. tauromenitana" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" rank="species" species="tauromenitana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">C. tauromenitana</emphasis>
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, endemic to the east coast of Sicily (0-600 m a.s.l.), but not belonging to the
<taxonomicName lsidName="C. busambarensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505" rank="species" species="busambarensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="91505">C. busambarensis</emphasis>
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complex by having the yellow flowers in very large capitula with brown appendages and glabrescent habitus.
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