Anthemis segetalis, Ten.

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

56. A. segetalis Ten. , FI. Neap. Syll. App. Quinta 54 (1842)

( A. brachycentros Gay ex Koch ).

Puberulent or glabrous annual up to 50 cm. Stem more or less branched. Leaves ovate-oblong, 1- to 2-pinnatipartite; lobes narrowly linear to oblong. Capitula (15-)22-40(-50) mm in diameter; peduncles up to 15 cm, not davate in fruit. Involucre hemispherical, finally umbonate; outer bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, the inner oblong-lanceolate, with fimbriate-ciliate scarious margin and apex. Ligules 10-16 x 3-5-6 mm, oblong to broadly elliptical. Disc (7-)9-16 mm in diameter. Receptacle hemispherical; scales oblong-cuneate, with a rigid acumen less than half as long as the scale, as long as or shorter than the florets. Achenes (l-5-)2-2-5 mm, compressed, with acute lateral angles, (3-)5- to 7-striate on each side, those of ligules sub-triangular, those of tubular florets sub-quadrangular; corona up to 0-5 mm, paler than achene, entire or crenulate. 2n= 18. Cultivated land and waste places. • Balkan peninsula, Italy. Al Gr It Ju. A. dalmatica Scheele , Linnaea 18: 464 (1845) (? A. coronata H. Lindb. fil. , A. brachycentros var. coronata (H. Lindb. fil.) Hayek ), from the coast of Jugoslavia, seems to be only a variant or subspecies of 56, differing in the softer leaves and slightly larger achenes with a longer (0-5-1 mm), lacerate, brownish corona.