Crepis pusilla (Sommier) Merxm, it is an acaulescent annual. Leaves (10-) 20-30 (-70) x (1.5-) 2-5 mm, in a flat basal rosette, linear-spathulate or oblanceolate, entire to runcinate pinnatifid, attenuate at base sub glabrous. Capitula in sessile clusters of (2-) 3-8 in center of basal rosette. Involucre 4-5 x 3-4 mm. Outer involucral bracts 2-4, linear, membranous. Inner ones linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with membranous apex, incurving and thickening in fruit below and herbaceous above, with spreading eglandular hairs. Receptacle glabrous. Ligules 1-2 mm, yellow, style branches ± black. Cypsela 2.5-3 mm (include, beak) of 2 kinds; inner and some outer whitish, oblong, compressed, striate, the remainder of the outer brownish, thicker, angled, very finely striate and enclosed by the inner involucral bracts; pappus not exserted from the involucre, of unequal hairs.
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