Citation: Merxm., Mitt. Bot. München 7:275 (1968).

Synonymy: Melitella pusilla Sommier, Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n.s. 14:497 (1907).

Common name: Dandelion crepis. Stemless annual herb; leaves all basal, narrowly oblanceolate to linear, subacute, attenuate at the base, 2-5 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, entire to runcinate-pinnatifid, glabrous, forming a rosette, to 10 cm diam..

Description:
Capitula 2-8 in a sessile terminal cluster; involucres c. 4 mm long, c. 3 mm diam.; outer bracts 2-4, equal, narrowly linear, membranous; inner bracts 7-9, coriaceous, becoming thickened, oblong, with an acute scarious appendage exceeding the truncate fimbriate apex; receptacle glabrous; florets 20-45; corolla glabrous; ligules oblong, c. 1 mm long, not exceeding the involucre.

Marginal achenes fusiform, curved, 12-16-ribbed, c. 2 mm long, slightly pubescent, brown, very shortly beaked; inner achenes similar, hardly curved, 1.8-2 mm long; pappus bristles 2-seriate, 1-1.5 mm long, unequal, cream, persistent.

Distribution:  On grazing land around Bascombe Well, also recorded from stockyards at Port Lincoln. S.Aust.: EP, SL, KI.   Native to Portugal, Malta, Greece and Crete. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Not Applicable

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