Leontodon maroccanus, (Pers.) Ball

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 : 315

24. L. maroccanus (Pers.) Ball , Jour. Linn. Soc. London (Bot.) 16: 544 (1878).

Annual. Stems 1-few, up to 25 cm, simple, with few to numerous, rigid simple eglandular or long-stalked 2-fid hairs; bracts absent. Leaves 100-140 x 30-40 mm, oblanceolate, obtuse, dentate, attenuate into a winged, sometimes dentate petiole, with numerous rigid, long-stalked 2-fid hairs. Capitulum solitary. Involucre 12-16 x 10-14 mm; bracts lanceolate, obtuse, with rigid simple eglandular or long-stalked 2-fid hairs mainly in a median line. Ligules yellow, the outer with a stripe on the outer face. Stigmas yellow. Achenes brown, of 2 kinds: outer shortly beaked, with the pappus of small scales; inner 9-10 mm, with beak 5-7 mm and pappus-hairs in 2 rows, plumose. 2n = 8. S. Spain. Hs. (N. W. Africa.)