Flora

Atractylis echinata Pomel , it is a perennial, up to 4-7 cm,  caulescent, formed like a small bush; stems few branched, cobwebby becoming glabrous in older parts. Leaves coriaceous, sessile, spreading, hairs in furrows; margins bristly with 4-6 pairs of teeth divided into 24 spines; apex terminate into a subulate spine. Capitula ovoid, 10-20 mm in diam, dioecious by abortion. Supplementary involucral bracts resembling the upper cauline leaves.  

Jabal Nafusa:

Reported from Kussbat by Pampanini

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.gbif.org/species/5398248,     https://www.floramaroccana.fr/a.-echinata.html

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:182918-1,   https://www.ipni.org/n/182918-1,   http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000116857,   https://www.gbif.org/species/5398248,   https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/136091/atractylis-echinata-pomel,   https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.mpu005650,  https://www.floramaroccana.fr/a.-echinata.html