Brocchia cinerea (Delile) Vis. / Homotypic Synonyms: Cotula cinerea Delile, it is an annual herb, densely villous, grey-green, (5-) 10-25 (-35) cm, erecto-patent herb, lower parts of the stem occasionally suffruticose. Stems branched from the base. Leaves obovate to spathulate in outline, (6-) 10-15 x2-6 mm, lower and mid-cauline leaves 3-fidat the apex with or without 1-2 pairs of lateral lobes; lobes up to2 x 1.5 mm, entire, broadly ovate, acute, somewhat fleshy; uppermost cauline leaves similar to mid-cauline leaves to ± entire. Capitula on 2-3 cm long, terminal or axillary, slender. flexuous peduncles, yellow (4.5-) 5-7 mm in diam., heterogamous or (Libyan taxon) homogamous. Involucre densely villous, hemispherical; outer involucral bracts 3 x 0.75 mm, linear ovate, with a scarious apex; inner involucral bracts 3-3.5 x 1 mm, ovate to ovate lanceolate, with very narrow scarious membranous margin, sometimes carious margin not distinct; bract subtending the 1st marginal row of florets 2-2.5 x 1 mm. broadly obovate, scarious, smooth or with few hairs at margin near the apex. Florets all hermaphrodite, yellow; corolla 2 mm long (include, lobes), slightly laterally attached on the top of the ovary, a little above the middle constricted; tube below the constriction compressed; tube above the constriction campanulate, 4-lobed; lobes 0.25 mm, acute. Cypsela 1 mm long, oblong in outline, plano-convex, indistinctly 4-ribbed; longitudinally white strigose, epappose, basal scar annular, slightly lateral.
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