Anthemis orientalis, (L.) Degen

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 : 152

22. A. orientalis (L.) Degen , Iter Turc. (Exsicc.) (1890)

( A. pectinata (Bory & Chaub.) Boiss. & Reuter , A. complanata auch, non (Sibth. & Sm.) Halácsy).

Stock woody, branched. Stems (7—) 11—27(—36) cm, usually numerous, caespitose, with 0-5 branches. Leaves oblong to linear-oblong, glandular-punctate, sparsely hairy, pectinate, sessile; segments entire or rarely pinnatisect, narrowly linear to setaceous, mucronate-subulate, distant or more or less approximate, frequently with 1—2(—3) short lobes in their axils. Involucral bracts glabrous, triangular to oblong, the inner with wide hyaline margin and apex. Ligules 6-5-10 x 3-4 mm, rarely present. Disc 6-12 mm in diameter, conicalconvex; florets rather glandular, with the tube constricted at the middle, swollen only at base or not at all. Receptacle conical; scales hyaline, obovate or broadly elliptical, obtuse, with somewhat rigid acumen, reaching the base of the corolla-lobes. Achenes granulate, not or obsoletely ribbed, with acute rim, the peripheral c. 1 -25 mm, cylindrical-turbinate, the inner c. 1 - 5 mm, obconical. Greece, Turkey-in-Europe. Gr Tu.