Veronica thessalica, Bentham

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 : 246

24. V. thessalica Bentham in DC., Prodr. 10: 480 (1846).

Stems 10-20 cm, procumbent, woody, glabrous. Leaves 5-8 x 2-5-4 mm, elliptical, entire or serrulate, glabrous except for cibate petiole, crowded at stem-apex. Racemes usually 2, opposite, capitate, arising near the stem-apex and often approximated, so as to be mistaken for a single terminal raceme; axis villous; pedicels 2-3 mm; bracts 3-4 mm, linear-oblong, long-ciliate. Calyx 3 mm; segments 4-5, cibate. Corolla 5 mm long, usually not opening widely. Capsule 2-5 x 3 mm, obcordate, glabrous. 2«=16. Mountain rocks and screes. • E. Greece; N. Albania. Al Gr.

Until recently included in Sect. Veronicastrunr, in well-grown plants, however, the axillary position of the racemes is clear.