Filago fuscescens Pomel, it is an annual herb, greyish, rigid, erect, branching from all levels, with branches spreading, 5-15 (-25) cm high. Leaves 10-25 x 2-2.75 (-3.5) mm, oblong-obovate, margins recurved, leaves subtending the cluster of capitulum (4-) 5-6, (8-) 10-12 x 0.75 -1 mm, linear not overtopping the cluster. Capitula 3-8 (-10) in an axillary or seemingly a terminal, sub globose clusters, 4-4.5 (-5) x 2.5-2.75 1010, 5-angled, ± pyramid at, ovoid. at the base hairy. Involucral bracts 4-subseriate, with a dark brown spot in the upper half below the apex, sub lending a female floret. Involucral bract of 1st row 4-4.25 mm, ovate, strongly convex at the back, ± craniate. aristate, arista ± straight or slightly out-corved, back and margins strongly hairy (with shaggy hairs) except the lip. Involucral bracts of the 2nd row 4.75- 5 mm. ovate, strongly convex at the back, aristate, arista ± straight, back and margins hairy except the tip. Involucral bract of 3rd row 5 mm long. ovate, conves at the back, acuminate, margins and back in the lower half hairy. Involucral bracts of the 4th, row 4 mm long, oblong-ovate, rather flattish, acute, smooth. Female florets of 1sh, 2nd & 3rd series cpappose; corolla filiform, 2,25-2.5 mm long. Female florets at the apex of the receptacle 10-12 (-15); corolla very narrowly tubular. 2.5 mm long: pappus setae 10-12, connate at the base, scabrid, deciduous, as long as or slightly shorter than the corolla. Hermaphrodite florets 5 (-6), epappose; corolla 2.25-2.5 mm, tubular, tube 4-toothed, slightly swollen at the base. Cypsela 0.8-1 x 0.3 mm, obovoid, pale brown.
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