Matricaria tempskyana, (Freyn & Sint.) Rauschert

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 : 167

7. M. tempskyana (Freyn & Sint.) Rauschert , Folia Geobot. Phytotax. (Praha) 9: 258 (1974)

( T. tempskyanum (Freyn & Sint.) Hayek ).

Perennial. Stems 30-65 cm, glabrous, erect or ascending, branching corymbosely in upper i, leafy in lower f. Leaves glabrous, with numerous short, narrow segments; lower cauline leaves 3-4 x 1 - 5-2 cm. Capitula 4-8(-20), the terminal 1-1-3 cm in diameter; ligules absent or very short; involucral bracts with a narrow, colourless or pale brown scarious margin; outer bracts about equalling the inner. Achenes 1 -8-2 mm; ribs distinctly separated; abaxial face brown and rugose; resin-glands usually laterally connate; pappus 0-2-0-4 mm, entire or lobed. Scrub. • Mountains of C. Greece. Gr.

M. disciformis (C. A. Meyer) DC. , Prodr. 6: 51 (1838), is recorded from Bulgaria, where its status is uncertain. It is like 7 but has numerous capitula and smooth or almost smooth achenes less than 1 -4 mm, without a pappus or with 3-4 short lobes. It is native from the S. Caucasus to Afghanistan.