Anthemis rumelka, (Velen.) Stoj. & Acht.

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25. A. rumelka (Velen.) Stoj. & Acht. , Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 13: 516 (1937)

( A. tenuiloba var. rumelica (Velen.) Stoj. & Acht. ).

More or less hairy, caespitose perennial (rarely biennial). Stems 8-20 cm, numerous, erect or ascending, simple or with 1-3 branches from below the middle. Leaves green or greyish, 1 -pinnatisect with entire or 2- to 3-fid segments; lobes linear-spathulate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, mucronulate. Capitula up to 25 mm in diameter; peduncles 4-13 cm. Involucre hemispherical-subcampanulate, appressed-hairy; outer bracts ovate-triangular, subacute, the inner oblong, obtuse, with hyaline margin and apex. Ligules up to 10 mm. Disc up to 10 mm in diameter, convex-conical in fruit. Receptacle conical, acute; scales oblong to oblong-obovate, truncate, shortly apiculate, about equalling the florets. Achenes 1 - 5-2 mm, obpyramidal, scarcely ribbed; auricle hyaline, very short. Dry hillsides. • S.E. Bulgaria. Bu.

A. regis-borisii Stoj. & Acht. , op. cit. 519 (1937), described from N.E. Bulgaria, is like 25 in most characters, but approaches 19 in its hairy involucral bracts and in having a hyaline corona.