Heteracia szovitsii, Fischer & C. A. Meyer

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 : 344

1. H. szovitsii Fischer & C. A. Meyer , Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1: 30 (1835)

( H. epapposa (Regel & Schmalh.) M. Popov ).

Glabrous annual. Stems 5-30 cm. Basal leaves 50-120 x 15-20 mm, oblong or oblong-ovate, more or less sinuate-dentate to pinnately lobed or pinnatipartite, the lobes triangular; cauline lanceolate or oblong-ovate, sessile, cordate-sagittate. Peduncles thickened. Involucre 5-9 x 6-9(-12) mm; bracts lanceolate, more or less obtuse, united towards the base. Outer achenes c. 8 mm, obpyramidal, greyish-brown, somewhat compressed on back with 2 spongy, cylindrical ribs on the ventral side, more or less transversely rugose, laterally dilated upwards into wings; inner c. 10 mm, with 4-5 spongy ribs, 2 of which are cylindrical, the others narrowly winged, with filiform beak 2-2| times as long as the body. Dry waste places. W. Kazakhstan. Rs (E). (S. C. & S. W. Asia.)