Leontodon filii, (Hochst.) Paiva & Ormonde

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 : 315

26. L. filii (Höchst.) Paiva & Ormonde , Bol. Soc. Brot. ser. 2, 46: 447 (1972)

( Microderis filii Höchst. ).

Perennial with oblique, truncate stock. Stems 20-50 cm, usually branched, with numerous rigid, simple eglandular and long-stalked 2- to 3-fid hairs; bracts 0-3. Leaves 30-170x 15-45 mm, elliptical to oblanceolate, obtuse to subacute, long-attenuate at base into a winged petiole, dentate with narrow, patent teeth, with numerous rigid, simple eglandular or long-stalked 2-fid hairs. Capitula 1-4, on long peduncles. Involucre 10-13 x 7-10 mm; bracts linear, more or less obtuse, glabrous or with few to numerous, simple eglandular or long-stalked 2-fid hairs. Ligules yellow. Stigmas yellow or discoloured. Achenes 4-5-5-5 mm, pale brown, weakly transversely muricate, shortly beaked; pappus-hairs in 2 rows, the inner plumose, the outer scabrid. • Açores. Az.