Linaria anticaria, Boiss. & Reuter

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 : 233

43. L. anticaria Boiss. & Reuter , Pugillus 86 (1852).

Perennial, glabrous except sometimes for glandular-pubescent inflorescence, somewhat glaucous; stems 7-45 cm, procumbent to ascending. Leaves 7-35 x 1 -5-10 mm, oblong to elliptical, acute, mostly in whorls of 4-6(-8) but the uppermost sometimes alternate. Racemes dense in flower, rather lax in fruit; bracts 2-5-10 mm; pedicels 1-2 mm. Calyx 4-7 mm; segments oblong-obovate, unequal. Corolla 18-26 mm, greyish-lilac with bluish-violet veins (very rarely entirely yellow); palate deep bluish-violet, sometimes with a yellow spot; spur 5-12 mm, usually slightly longer than rest of corolla. Capsule 3 -5-7 mm. Seeds 1 -7-3 mm, suborbicular, flat; disc tuberculate or smooth, blackish-brown; wing broad, paler. 2/7= 12. Shady limestone rocks. • S. Spain. Hs.

L. rossmaessleri Willk. , Linnaea 30: 118 (1859), from the Sierra de Almijara, with narrower leaves, which are often mostly alternate, and yellowish corolla-tube, is somewhat intermediate between 43 and 48, but is best regarded as a variety of the former.