Leontodon salzmannii, (Schultz Bip.) Ball

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 : 312

11. L. salzmannii (Schultz Bip.) Ball , Jour. Linn. Soc. London (Bot.) 16: 545 (1878).

Annual. Stems 1-3, 10-30 cm, branched, glabrous; bracts 0-3. Leaves 40-110x 10-20 mm, oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse to subacute, sinuate-dentate to pinnatifid, gradually narrowed into the short petiole, glabrous. Capitula 2-3, on long peduncles. Involcure 10-12 x 8-12 mm; bracts narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous or with a few simple eglandular hairs in a median line. Ligules yellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes brown, strongly tuberculate-muricate, of 2 kinds: outer 2-3 mm, cylindrical, truncate at apex, without a pappus; inner 6-7 mm, narrowed at apex into a long beak, with a pappus of an inner row of c. 10 rigid, plumose hairs and an outer row of short scales. Sandy places. S. Spain (rare)', once recorded from S.E. Portugal. Hs Lu. (Morocco.)