Anthemis filicaulis, (Boiss. & Heldr.) W. Greuter

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 : 158

59. A. filicaulis (Boiss. & Heldr.) W. Greuter , Candollea 23: 148 (1968)

( Ammanthus filicaulis Boiss. & Heldr. ).

Appressedhairy. Stems 2-14 cm, ascending or decumbent, very slender, usually simple, purplish. Basal leaves up to 3 cm, pinnatipartite; segments 2 on each side, lanceolate or elliptical, entire to 3-fid; lobes shortly mucronate; cauline leaves pinnatipartite, with entire to 3-fid segments, or spathulate and 3- to 5-lobed or entire and linear. Peduncles slightly davate in fruit. Involucre hemispherical or hemispherical-conical, appressed-hairy; outer bracts linear-oblong, subacute, with narrow hyaline margin, the others oblong-ovate, obtuse, with wide hyaline, long-ciliate margin. Ligules 5-7, c. 3 x 2-5 mm, broadly elliptical to suborbicular, sometimes absent. Disc 4-8 mm in diameter. Receptacle shortly ovoid, roundish at apex, without scales. Outer achenes up to 3 mm, cylindrical, slightly curved, persistent, with erose-denticulate corona c. 1 mm; inner achenes c. 2-5 mm, cylindricalobconical, with corona 0-75-1 mm, caducous. Calcareous maritime rocks. • E. Kriti. Cr.