Anthemis hydruntina, Groves

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 : 151

16. A. hydruntina Groves , Jour. Linn. Soc. London (Bot.) 21: 523 (1885).

Perennial with a woody base. Stems 25-45 cm, often caespitose, simple, furcate, or with 3-6 corymbose branches above the middle, rigid, appressed-whitish-hirsute or -lanate towards the base. Leaves up to 4 x 2 cm, oblong, 2-pinnatisect, glandular-punctate, lanate to sparsely hirsute; lobes linear to oblong, acute. Capitula (5-)7-8 mm in diameter at anthesis, up to 12 mm and subglobose in fruit. Involucre umbonate, pale yellowish-green, glabrous or sparsely pubescent below; bracts ovate to oblong, more or less acute, with hyaline margin and apex. Receptacle finally conical; scales oblong, obtuse, with a short acumen, glandular, shorter than florets. Tubular florets swollen and spongy below the middle. Achenes 1-5-1-75 mm, obconical, slightly ribbed, somewhat granulate, with acute rim, higher on the adaxial side. Dry, open habitats. • S. Italy. It.