Leontodon muelleri, (Schultz Bip.) Fiori

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

10. L. muelleri (Schultz Bip.) Fiori in Fiori & Paol., FI. Anal. Ital. 3: 396 (1904).

Annual. Stems 1-4, 10-30 cm, simple or branched, glabrous; bracts 1-3. Leaves 10-60(-150) x 5-15 mm, oblong to oblanceolate, shallowly sinuate-dentate, gradually narrowed into the relatively long petiole, glabrous. Capitula 1-2, on long peduncles. Involucre 8-10 x 7-9 mm; bracts lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous. Ligules yellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes dark brown, strongly transversely muricate, of 2 kinds: outer 4-4-5 mm, narrowed into a beak, with a pappus of short scales; inner 6-7 mm, narrowed into a long beak, with a pappus of 1 row of c. 10 rigid, plumose hairs. Sardegna, Sicilia. Sa Si [*Lu]. (N. Africa.)