Flora

Filago asterisciflora (Lam.) Sweet / Homotypic Synonyms: Evax asterisciflora (Lam.) Pers., it is an annual herb, stems up to 3-13 cm, rigid, simple or branched. Cauline leaves 12-25 x 4-5 mm, linear-oblong to oblanceolate-spathulate, sub opposite. Rosette-leaves 15-40 x 3-7 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, sub coriaceous. adpressed-hairy, c. 4 times as long as the cluster of capitula. Capitula numerous, in clusters 12-18 mm wide. Involueral bracts cuspidate or somewhat acuminate, with recurved arista c. 1 mm. Cypsela c, 1x 0.3 mm, narrowly obovoid, sparsely hairy, brown, emarginate at apex.

Tripolitania:

Reported from Tripolitania by Durand & Barratte, Pampanini and Keith

Cirenaica:

Reported from Cirenaica by Durand & Barratte, Pampanini and Keith

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://botany.cz/cs/filago-asterisciflora/,   https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=3246,  https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=5462

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:941483-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/941483-1,   http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000122165,  https://www.gbif.org/species/9407822,   https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/223562/filago-asterisciflora-lam-sweet,   https://botany.cz/cs/filago-asterisciflora/,  http://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Compositae/Filago_asterisciflora.htm,   https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=3246,   https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=5462