Chamomilla aurea, (Loefl.) Gay ex Cosson & Kralik

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 : 167

4 C. aurea (Loefl.) Gay ex Cosson & Králik , Cat. Pl. Syrie Palaest. 10 (1854)

( Matricaria aurea (Loefl.) Schultz Bip. , Perideraea aurea (Loefl.) Willk. ).

Stems 4-25 cm, slender, decumbent or ascending and often flexuous, branched from the base, glabrous below, sometimes very sparsely pubescent below the capitulum. Leaves 0-5-2-5 x 0-3-1 cm; segments numerous, capillary, mucronulate. Peduncles 0-5-2-5 cm; capitula 1-60, 4-7 mm in diameter; involucral bracts with a brown margin. Florets all tubular, 4-lobed, yellow; corolla 0-7-0-9 mm (slightly exceeding the auricle, if present). Achenes 0-6-0-9 x 015 -0-2 mm (excluding auricle), pale to dark brown, with 3-5 ribs on the ventral face; pappus either a short membranous rim, or a conspicuous irregularly toothed, scarious auricle O-6-O-8 mm. 2/z= 18. Roadsides, waste places and cultivated ground. S. Portugal, C. & S.E. Spain, Lampedusa , Malta. Hs Lu Si.

A variable species. Plants with auriculate achenes are recorded from Malta, Lampedusa and Cyprus, and have not been observed elsewhere.