Anthemis auriculata, Boiss.

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 : 153

29. A. auriculata Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 1(4): 5 (1844)

( A. sismondaeana G. C. Clementi ).

Appressed-hairy. Stems 8-35 cm, 1 to many, usually branched. Leaves oblong, 1 - to 2-pinnatisect; lobes lanceolate to shortly oblong, acute to obtuse, mucronate. Capitula 15-35 mm in diameter; peduncles long, not davate in fruit. Involucre hemispherical; outer bracts triangular to lanceolate, the inner oblong, rounded, with hyaline orpale brown scarious margin and apex. Ligules up to 12 mm. Disc up to 12 x 13 mmin fruit; tubular floretsswollen and spongy below the middle. Receptacle up to 10x 3 mm, elongate-conical in fruit; scales oblanceolate- to obovate-cuneate, lacerate at apex with somewhat rigid acumen. Achenes 1 - 5-2 mm (excl. auricle), subcylindrical-obconical, with somewhat raised to nearly obsolete ribs; auricle 0-5-1-75 mm, oblong or rounded, spongy at the base, shorter in the inner achenes. Dry hillsides and Pinuswoods. S. part of Balkan peninsula, N. Aegean region. Bu Gr?Ju Tu.

A. parnesia Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., FI. Or. 3: 305 (1875), from S. Greece, is perhaps a variant of 29. It is distinguished by the more slender stems up to 10 cm, involucral bracts with brownish-scarious margin and apex, less swollen corolla-tube, and auricle up to 1 mm.