Filago mareotica, Delile

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 : 123

13. F. mareotica Delile , Deser. Égypte, Hist. Nat. 2; 274 (1813).

Stem 3-15(-20) cm, simple or branched, appressed-lanate. Leaves 3-5 x 0-5-1 mm, linear-lanceolate; leaves subtending the capitula 3-3-5 x 0-6-1-2 mm, 3, oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the capitula. Capitula 3-4 x 1 - 5 mm, oblong-cylindrical, brownish. Involucral bracts 2-7 x 0-7 mm, in (4~)5 rows, parallel before flowering, hardening and slightly divergent in fruit, the middle lanceolate, acuminate. Female florets c. 1 -4 mm; hermaphrodite l-l-l-2mm, (1—)3—5, with well-developed pappus. Achenes 0-7 x 0-25 mm, oblong-obovoid, greenish-brown. Saline soils. S.E. Spain. Hs. (N. Africa.)