Leontodon hispidulus, (Delile) 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 : 312-313

12. L. hispidulus (Delile) Boiss. , FI. Or. 3: 727 (1875)

( L. creticus Boiss. ).

Annual. Stems numerous, 10-20 cm, usually branched, glabrous or with simple eglandular hairs below; bracts numerous. Leaves 30-90 x 3-20 mm, oblong to narrowly oblanceolate in outline, obtuse or acute, dentate to pinnatifid, narrowed to the obscure petiole, glabrous or with simple eglandular hairs. Capitula 1-3. Involucre 9-12x8-11 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, usually with soft simple eglandular hairs and sometimes also rigid ones, mainly in a median line. Ligules yellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 7-8 mm, uniform, brown, with beak as long as the rest of the body,

strongly transversely muricate; pappus of 1 row of c. 10 rigid, plumose hairs. S.E. Spain (Prov. Almeria). Hs. (N. Africa.)

The type specimen of L. creticus Boiss. ( L. taraxacifolius (Cass.) Halácsy , non St-Lager), allegedly from Kriti, was probably collected in Egypt.