Buglossoides minima, (Moris) R. Fernandes

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

5. B. minima (Moris) R. Fernandes , loc. cit. (1971)

( Lithospermum minimum Moris ).

Annual; stems 2-10(-27) cm, solitary or few, erect or ascending, simple or sparingly branched, appressed-hispid. Basal leaves obovate or oblong, obtuse, the others oblong to oblong-linear, obtuse or acute. Calyx 1- 5-3 mm in flower, 4-6 mm in fruit, very densely appressedhispid with rather long hairs; lobes oblong, usually obtuse. Corolla 4-6 mm, blue or white, densely hispid outside; tube 2- 5-4-5 mm, cylindrical, abruptly dilated at the limb. Nutlets 2-2-75 x 1-25-1-75 mm, subtrigonous-conical, not much constricted below the beak, brownish, tuberculate-echinulate. Dry places. • S. W. Italy, Sicilia, Sardegna. It Sa Si. Considered by some authors as identical with 7, because their corolla-tubes are very alike; but it approaches rather more 4(d) (mainly the dwarf littoral variants from Greece), from which it differs in the more densely hispid and relatively longer corollatube, the oblong-linear, obtuse calyx-lobes and the smaller base of the nutlets.