Pulicaria paludosa, Link

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 : 137

4. P. paludosa Link in Schrader, Neues Jour. Bot. 1(3): 142 (1806).

Like 3 but middle and upper leaves linear to narrowly oblong, rigid, not or scarcely undulate; inner involucral bracts acute; ligules up to 3 mm longer than the involucre, sometimes patent; achene c. 1 mm, with erecto-patent hairs. 2n = 18 + 0-1 B. Seasonally wet places. • Iberian peninsula. Hs Lu.

P. paludosa may be conspecific with P. arabica (L.) Cass. , Diet. Sci. Nat. 44: 94 (1826), from N. Africa, which has once been collected in Kriti.

P. microcephala Lange , Bol. Soc. Brot. 1: 42, 50 (1883), described from W. Portugal (Ilha Berlenga), is a dwarf much-branched plant with leaves mostly less than 5 mm long and very numerous capitula 0-4-0-5 cm in diameter; it is probably a variant of 4, but further investigation is needed. A similar variant has been collected once in S.W. Spain (S.W. of Cadiz).