Saxifraga callosa subsp. callosa

(a) Subsp. callosa View in CoL ( S. lingulata Bellardi ): Leaves 25-90x 2-5- 6 mm, linear or oblanceolate, usually subacute. Peduncle and inflorescence eglandular, or with a very few scattered glandular hairs. 2« = 28. Maritime Alps, Appennini, Sardegna, Sicilia.

The type, with long, narrow, linear leaves, is restricted to the eastern part of the Maritime Alps and the N. & C. Appennini; plants with broader usually shorter, oblanceolate leaves, from the western Maritime Alps and from the C. & S. Appennini and the islands, have been distinguished as S. lantoscana Boiss. and S. australis Morie , respectively. There are too many transitional forms to make recognition, even as subspecies, profitable, and it seems impossible, among the broader-leaved plants, to distinguish those from France from those from C. & S. Italy.