Flora

Filago micropodioides Lange, it is an annual herb, much branched, with very short main stem and branches procumbent or obliquely ascending. Leaves 12-15 x 2-2.5 mm, oblong to linear lanceolate, those subtending the clusters oblong-lanceolate, over topping clusters. Cluster of capitula 6-9 mm wide, almost covered by brownish grey indumentum, with 8-10, not clearly distinct capitula. Involucral bracts c. 3 x 1.2 mm, patent- lanate on the back, acute, with an arista 0.2 mm. Inner bracts obtuse. Hermaphrodite florets 4·5, pappus of few hairs, caduceus. Cypselas c. 0.5 mm.

Benghazi Plain:

Reported from Benghazi by Durand & Barratte and Keith Reported from N,E Ajedabia by Durand & Barratte and Keith

Jabal Nafusa:

Reported from Kussbat, Tarhuna by Durand & Barratte and Keith

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Compositae/Filago_micropodioides.htm   https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/filago-micropodioides,   https://www.almerinatura.com/joyas/filago-micropodioides.html

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:207918-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/207918-1,   http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000136801,  https://www.gbif.org/species/3115840,  https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/137598/filago-micropodioides-lange,  https://www.almerinatura.com/joyas/filago-micropodioides.html,    https://www.floravascular.com/index.php?spp=Filago%20micropodioides,  http://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Compositae/Filago_micropodioides.htm,  https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/filago-micropodioides,  https://www.floramaroccana.fr/f.-micropodioides.html