Linaria bipunctata, (L.) Dum. - Courset

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11. L. bipunctata (L.) Dum.-Courset , Bot. Cult. 2: 93 (1802)

( L. filifolia Lag. ).

Annual, glandular-puberulent at least above; stems 15-30 cm, diffuse or ascending to erect, usually much-branched. Leaves 6-20 x 0-5-1 mm, linear, obtuse, verticillate below, alternate above. Racemes short, rather dense at anthesis, lax in fruit; pedicels 1-3 mm. Calyx 2-5-3 mm; lobes oblong, subobtuse, unequal. Corolla 11-14 mm, yellow; spur 4-6 mm, often reddish. Capsule c. 3-5 mm. Seeds c. 0-6 mm, flattened-trigonous to reniform, obscurely and sparsely rugose or minutely tuberculate, with rounded angles. Cultivated ground, waste places and maritime sands. • Portugal, W. & C. Spain. Hs Lu.

Plants from S.C. Spain (Sierra Morena) with slightly wider leaves, corolla 9-10 mm, perhaps sometimes pale lilac with yellow palate, and reniform, tuberculate seeds very narrowly winged on the margins have been called L. intricata Coincy , Jour. Bot. (Paris) 14: 109 (1900) ( L. amoris Pau , L. diffusa sensu Lange , non Hoffmanns. & Link); they are probably not specifically distinct from 11.