Anchusa aggregata, Lehm.

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 : 108

12. A. aggregata Lehm. , Pl. Asperif. 395 (1818)

( Hormuzakia aggregata (Lehm.) Guçuleac ).

Annual, densely hispid with long, white, mostly tubercle-based setae; stems (5-)10-50 cm, ascending, branched. Leaves (5O-)7O-15O x (4-)7-15 mm, linearlanceolate, entire. Cymes more or less capitate, with subsessile flowers, oblong and dense in fruit; at least the lower bracts greatly exceeding calyx. Calyx c. 5 mm in flower, c. 8 mm in fruit, divided almost to the base into linear, obtuse lobes. Corolla blue; tube 6-8 mm; limb c. 5 mm in diameter; stamens inserted at top of tube, overlapping scales. Nutlets c. 3 x 4 mm, hemispherical. Maritime sands. S. Sicilia. fG r Si. (N. Africa, Asia.)