Neatostema apulum, (L.) I. M. Johnston

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 86

1. N. apulum (L.) I. M. Johnston , Jour. Arnold Arb. 34: 6 (1953)

( Lithospermum apulum (L.) Vahl ).

Stems 3-30 cm, solitary to many, erect, hispid, corymbosely branched above. Leaves up to 7x0-5 cm, setose mainly on the margins; the cauline linear or oblong-linear, erect, sessile, acute; the basal linear- to oblong-spathulate, attenuate into petiole. Cymes dense. Calyx 3-5-4 mm; lobes linear, acute, hispid outside, softly white-hairy inside, triangular in fruit. Corolla 6-6-5 mm; tube slightly exceeding calyx; lobes of limb glandular-puberulent on both surfaces. Style 0-25-0-5 mm. Nutlets 1-5-1-75 mm, subtetra- hedral, contracted at the beak, flat dorsally, keeled ventrally. 2« = 28. Dry, open habitats. S. Europe. BI Bu Co Cr Ga Gr Hs It Ju Lu Rs (K) Sa Si Tu.