Rindera Pallas

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 : 121-122

37. Rindera Pallas 1

Perennial herbs. Flowers in terminal ebracteate cymes, forming panicles or umbels. Calyx lobed to the base, accrescent or not. Corolla usually purple, cylindrical to infundibuliform, sometimes with 5 saccate invaginations in the throat. Stamens included or equalling corolla, inserted at or above middle of corolla. Style usually exserted; stigma small, capitate. Nutlets ovate to suborbicular, flattened, smooth, with a broad wing, attached to the receptacle for their whole length and adnate to style.

Literature: A. Brand in Engler, Pflanzenreich 78(IV. 252): 66-76 (1921).

1 Inflorescence paniculate; corolla lobed to c. £; invaginations in corolla-tube indistinct 1. tetraspis

1 Inflorescence umbellate; corolla lobed to c. |; invaginations in corolla-tube distinct

2 Leaves green; stem 25-70cm, leafyabove 2. umbellata

2 Leavesgrey-lanate; stem 6 -25cm, not leafyabove 3. graeca