Torilis webbii
Torilis webbii
Bey dercikotu
Spreading, decumbent or prostrate annual, 5-50 cm; stems little branched, scabrid with retrorse hairs; internodes long. Leaves oblong-deltoid in outline, 2-8 cm, 1-2-pinnate, segments ovate, deeply pinnatifid, lobes linear-lanceolate, Umbels leaf-opposed, 1-2 cm in diam., subsessile or shortly pedunculate; rays obscure, 3, occasionally up to I cm long. Bracts absent; bracteoles 2-5 mm long, exceeding subsessile flowers. Sepals obsolete or reduced to minute subulate-deltoid lobes. Petals white or pink, 0.5-0.8 x 0.3-0.6 mm. Styles usually less than 0.5 mm. Fruits 2-4 mm long, ovoid. Mericarps homocarpic with numerous spines with retrorsely barbed apices on secondary ridges; primary ridges with antrorse hairs. 2n=22. Fl. 4-5. Calcareous rocky places, clearings of Pinus brutia, 800-950 m.
Portugal, Canary Islands, Sicily, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, N. Africa.
