Leontodon carpetanus, Lange

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6. L. carpetanus Lange , Vid. Meddel. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kjobenhavn 1861: 96 (1861).

Perennial with vertical or oblique, often branched, truncate stock. Stems 1-numerous, 10-45 cm, simple or branched, glabrous or with few simple eglandular hairs; bracts numerous. Leaves 10-120 x 1-15 mm, linear or narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, sinuate-dentate to deeply pinnatisect with usually linear segments, tapered into the petiole, glabrous or with simple eglandular hairs. Capitula 1-3. Involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, with numerous long, greyish simple eglandular hairs intermixed with shortish whitish ones. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 5-7 mm, pale brown, with a beak 0.5-4 as long as the remainder of the achene, transversely muricate; pappus of 1 row of at least 12 plumose hairs. • Mountains of C., S. & E. Spain. Hs.