Tordylium byzantinum, (Aznav.) Hayek

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 367

5. T. byzantinum (Aznav.) Hayek , Prodr. FI. Penins. Balcan. 1: 1045 (1927).

Annual 30-90 cm. Stem with short stiff bristles and soft hairs below, ridged, branched. Leaves sometimes entire, ovate or cordate, crenate, sometimes pinnate, with 3-5 ovate, crenate-dentate segments. Rays 20-40. Bracts and bracteoles numerous, setaceous. Outer flowers with 2 petals much larger than the others, each very unequally 2-lobed. Fruit c. 3 mm, with soft vesicular hairs; wing without a thin inner part; thickened margin smooth, not corrugated. Kriti; Turkey-in-Europe (near Istanbul). Cr Tu.

Ainsworthia trachycarpa Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 2(10): 43 (1849), has been reported from Makedonija, but probably in error.