Cleonia lusitanica, (L.) L.

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 : 162

1. C. lusitanica (L.) L. , Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 837 (1763).

Hispid or appressed-pubescent; stems up to 40 cm, simple or branched from the base. Leaves 3-9 x 0*4-1 *8 cm, sessile, oblong to linear, obtuse, usually coarsely crenate to deeply dentate or weakly pinnatifid, scabrid or shortly hispid. Bracts sessile, imbricate, pectinate-pinnatifid, white-ciliate, acuminate; segments longaristate. Calyx 5-7 mm, glandular-hispid, the throat somewhat closed in fruit; teeth of the upper lip obsolete or more or less distinct, with an arista 0*5-3 mm. Corolla 2-3 cm, purplishviolet (rarely white), puberulent. Nutlets c. 2*5 mm, light brown. Dry, open habitats. C. & S. Spain, C. & S. Portugal. Hs Lu.