Crepis tingitana, Ball

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 350

20. C. tingitana Ball , Jour. Linn. Soc. London (Bot.) 16: 537 (1878).

Perennial; stems 15-45 cm, simple or branched above. Leaves glabrous or rarely with eglandular hairs above; basal up to 9 x 4 cm, spathulate, elliptical, obovate to oblanceolate, obtuse, conspicuously retrorsely dentate, abruptly contracted into a long, slender petiole; cauline oblanceolate to lanceolate, acute, more or less dentate, mostly sessile, auriculate, amplexicaul. Capitula 1-10. Involucre 11-13 x 5-6 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, the outer | as long as inner, canescent-tomentulose and with simple eglandular hairs. Achenes 5-8 x O-5-O-8 mm, very dark reddish-brown, fusiform, strongly attenuate above or coarsely beaked, 10-ribbed. 2« = 10. S. Spain. Hs.