Flora

Micropus supinus L., it is an annual herb, up 2 -10 cm. Stems procumbent or ascending, rigid, branched from the base. Leaves 12-20 x 4-11 mm, obovate-spathulate, rounded to subacute, flat. Capitula 5-7 mm wide. Outer involucral bracts 1-I.2 mm, membranous. Inner involucral bracts 4-5, 5-8 mm in fruit, with densely appressed hairs; palea minute. Cypselas 2.3-2.5 x 1-1.3 mm, obliquely obovoid, pale-brown, shining.

Jabal Nafusa:  Reported from Gharian by Keith

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Bare ground on hill above Tolmeta by road to Barce 1939

Wild in Libya, in open dry places.

Link of images: https://flora-on.pt/?q=Micropus,   https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/micropus-supinus,

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:232581-1,   https://www.ipni.org/n/232581-1,   http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000040346,  https://www.gbif.org/species/5939846,   https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/163775/micropus-supinus-l,   https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/micropus-supinus, https://flora-on.pt/?q=Micropus,   https://flora.org.il/en/plants/MICSUP/,  https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/24395.html,  https://botany.cz/cs/micropus-supinus/