Myosotis minutiflora, 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 : 113

14. M. minutiflora Boiss. & Reuter , Pugillus 80 (1852)

( M. rhodopea Velen. ).

Annual; stem not more than 15 cm, delicate, branched at the base, with widely spaced leaves up to the lowest flowers, with a dense, patent indumentum above but also with hooked hairs below. Basal leaves up to 2 x 0-4 cm, oblanceolate, sessile, with hooked hairs beneath. Flowers very crowded, especially towards the apex of the inflorescence. Pedicels in lower part of inflorescence up to 3 mm in fruit, often bent and deflexed, in upper part 1 mm, patent or pointing upwards. Calyx up to 3-5 mm in fruit, divided to more than J, open, deciduous, with deflexed, hooked hairs and appressed, straight hairs at the base. Corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx; limb scarcely 1 mm in diameter, saucer-shaped, pale blue. Nutlets 1-5x1 mm, brown, broadly ovate, with distinct rim and obliquely triangular attachment-area on the inner side of the keel which runs from apex to base. 2/7 = 48. Mountains o f S. Spain, N.E. Greece and S. Bulgaria. Bu G r Hs. (S. W. Asia.)