Eritrichium Schrader ex Gaudin

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 : 117

30. Eritrichium Schrader ex Gaudin 1

Caespitose perennials, sometimes woody at the base. Flowers in terminal, usually mostly ebracteate cymes. Calyx lobed almost to the base, accrescent or not. Corolla violet, blue or whitish, rotate with short tube, with 5 scales in the throat. Stamens included, inserted at about middle of tube, without appendages. Style included; stigma capitate. Nutlets ovoid-trigonous or turbinate, smooth or tuberculate, usually with a dentatepectinate wing, attached to receptacle by only part of their length.

Literature: A. Brand in Engler, Pflanzenreich 97 (IV. 252): 187—

201 (1931). L. Lechner-Pock, Phyton (Austria) 6: 98-206 (1956).

1 Pedicels 10-20 mm in fruit 1. pectinatum

1 Pedicels not more than 5 mm in fruit

2 Sides of nutlets making an obtuse angle at point of attachment; corolla 5-7 mm 2. nanum

2 Sides of nutlets making an acute angle at point of attachment; corolla 1-5-5-5 mm

3 Leaves 4-8 mm wide; nutlets hairy above

3. villosum

3 Leaves 1-3 mm wide; nutlets glabrous 4. aretioides