Lithodora hispidula, (Sibth. & Sm.) Griseb.

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 : 88

3. L. hispidula (Sibth. & Sm.) Griseb. , loc. cit. (1846)

( Lithospermum hispidulum Sibth. & Sm. ).

Much-branched dwarf shrub 10-35 cm; branches short, stiff, whitish-appressed-setulose. Leaves up to 15(-20) x 4-5 mm (usually smaller), oblongobovate to oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, dark green, appressed-setulose and patently tuberculate-hispid above, strongly whitish-appressed-setulose beneath; margin flat or more or less inflexed. Cymes 1- to 4-flowered. Calyx c. 7 mm; lobes appressed-setose. Corolla bluish-violet, glabrous; tube c. 12 mm; limb c. 10 mm in diameter, with short, rounded lobes. Anthers 2 mm. Nutlets ovoid-trigonous, white, minutely tuberculate. Rock-crevices and other dry places. Kriti and Karpathos. Cr. (E. Mediterranean.)