Heliotropium micranthos, (Pallas) Bunge

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 : 85

8. H. micranthos (Pallas) Bunge , Beitr. Kenntn. FI. Russi . 223 (1852).

Annual; stems up to 30 cm, glabrous below, sparsely setose above. Leaves up to 4x1-2 cm, narrowly elliptical to ovate, cuneate to rounded at the base, subacute, hirsute beneath, subglabrous above; petiole as long as or longer than lamina. Inflorescence very lax, few-flowered; pedicels up to 1-8 cm. Sepals 2 mm, linear-oblong, rather sparsely hairy, accrescent and up to 4 mm in fruit. Corolla c. 2-5 mm; limb very small, white. Style almost as long as stigma; stigma conical, densely hairy. Fruit splitting into 4 nutlets, sericeous. S.E. Russia (near Astrakhan'). Rs (E). (C. Asia.)