Leontodon siculus, (Guss.) Finch & P. D. Sell

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 : 313

16. L. siculus (Guss.) Finch & P. D. Sell , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 245 (1976)

( Apargia sicula Guss. ).

Perennial with vertical stock and vertical rhizome. Stems 1-3, 20-60 cm, simple, with few to numerous rigid, long-stalked 2- to 4-fid hairs and sometimes some weaker simple eglandular hairs; bracts 0-2. Leaves 35-160 x 5-20 mm, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, usually acute, denticulate to remotely dentate, gradually narrowed to the petiole, with dense long-stalked 2- to 5-fid hairs. Involucre 15-18 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with weak simple eglandular hairs and stouter simple eglandular and long-stalked 2-fid hairs. Ligules yellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 10-15 mm, strongly transversely muricate, the inner with a beak about as long as remainder of achene; pappus-hairs in 2 rows, more or less plumose, pale brown. • S. W. Italy, Sicilia. It Si.