Galatella anatolica

Rhizomatous perennial herb. Stems 12–24 cm, erect or ascending, simple or with a few  branches, sparsely to densely arachnoid. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 1-veined, with both surfaces arachnoid, cuneate at base, acute at apex; the basal and lower withered after anthesis; te middle 4–29 x 1–6 mm; the upper reduced. Capitula solitary or rarely 2–3 in very lax corymbs, peduncles long and covered with scale-like leaves towards the capitula. Involucres obconical, 11–20 x 11–18 mm; phyllaries 6–8-seriate, greenish to purplish, 1-veined, arachnoid throughout, acuminate at apex, the outer oblong-obovate, 6–7 x 1.4–2.4 mm, the inner oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 9–12 x 1.5–2.1 mm. Ray florets sterile, 6–12, purplish–violet, with lamina 10–12 x 2.0– 2.5 mm, and tube 4–6 mm; disc florets fertile, 13–18, yellow, 8–10 mm, with funnel-formed limb, triangular-lanceolate lobes, 1.5–1.7 mm, and scabridulous tube. Achenes oblong, 5–8 mm, sericeous. Pappus pale brownish, scabridulous, 5–7 mm in ray florets, 10–12 mm in discflorets. Flowering and fruiting in August–September.