Is this Centaurea nicaeensis?

Requests about identification of wild plants in Malta and Gozo. (Please include precise details and pictures to help the experts in their ID process)

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Is this Centaurea nicaeensis?

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This should be C. nicaeensis, but somehow it looked different from the norm - very erect, without branches. No mature flowers yet.
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Large and very erect specimens of Centaurea nicaaensis confirmed today. Wished to be C. melitensis which I have never yet encountered. I also have never figured out why melitensis and then not endemic (usually melitensis species are endemics )
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C. melitensis was described from specimens brought from Malta if i recall.
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