Crepis pusilla, (Sommier) Merxm. Crepis, Bischoff

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 : 355

57. C. pusilla (Sommier) Merxm. , Mitt. Bot. Staatssamm. (München)! '. 275 (1968)

( Melitella pusilla Sommier ).

Acaulescent annual. Leaves 2-7 x 0-2-0-5 cm, in a flat basal rosette, linear-spathulate, entire to runcinate-pinnatifid, attenuate at base, subglabrous. Capitula in sessile clusters of 2-8 in centre of basal rosette. Involucre c. 4 x 3-4 mm; outer bracts 2-4, linear, membranous, inner linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with a membranous apex. Achenes 1-1-5 mm, shortly beaked, of 2 kinds: inner and some outer whitish, oblong, compressed, striate; the remainder of the outer achenes brownish, thicker, angled, more finely striate and enclosed by the inner involucral bracts. 2n = 10. S. Greece, Kriti', Malta', S. Portugal. Cr Gr Lu Si. Sect. Alethocrepis Bischoff . Pubescent annuals or biennials; stems many, branched from near the base or middle. Lower leaves petiolate, denticulate to pinnate. Capitula many, with few to many florets. Ligules yellow, usually reddish on outer face. Receptacle usually with ciliate pits.