Anthemis trotzkiana, Claus ex Bunge

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 : 148

1. A. trotzkiana Claus ex Bunge , Del. Sem. Horti Dorpat. 3 (1847).

Very dense dwarf shrub; flowering stems with withered remains of leaves at base. Stems 9-16(-30) cm, simple or with few erect branches. Leaves up to 5-5 cm, 1- to 2-pinnatisect, white-lanate, glabrescent; lobes linear; mucro long, acute. Capitula c. 20 mm in diameter. Involucre campanulate; bracts lanate, the outer ovate-triangular, acute, the others with a wide hyaline apex. Ligules 7-5-13 x 3-5-6 mm, yellow. Disc 10-13 mm in diameter. Receptacle shortly conical; receptacular scales oblong-cuneate, abruptly acuminate, shorter than the florets.

Achenes c. 2mm, obpyramidal, ribbed on the adaxial side, not granulate, with or without a short corona. Calcicole. S.E. Russia, W. Kazakhstan. Rs (E).