Buglossoides tenuiflora (L.f.) I.M.Johnst.

Annual herb ; 5-30 cm , appressed-setulose . Stems erect or ascending , simple or much-branched . Leaves 0 . 5-1 . 8 x 0 . 2-0 . 4 cm , narrowly elliptic to linear , obtuse , sessile . Inflorescences terminal , forked ; cymes dense in flower , elongate in fruit , sessile or subsessile ; pedicel very short , not thickened in fruit . Flowers pale blue ; calyx 3-4 mm , covered by yellowish hairs , accrescent in fruit to 8 mm , the lobes linear-lanceolate ; corolla 4-6 mm , pale blue , infundibular ; tube 2 . 5-4 mm ; limb 1 . 5-2 mm , appressed-hispid outside , with 5 bands of pilose hairs inside , associated with glands extending to the apex of the anthers ; stamens included , inserted near the base of the tube ; anthers 0 . 5-0 . 75 mm ; ovary ovate , glabrous ; style 0 . 5-1 m , glabrous ; stigma obscurely 2-lobed . Fruit nutlet , 4 , enclosed by the accrescent calyx . Seeds 2-2 . 5 x 1 . 5-2 . 25 mm , erect or slightly divergent , pyriform , tips equal , warty or verruculose , ventral keels parallel . (Ref . Flora of Egypt ; vol . 2) .

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Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Lithospermum tenuiflorum L.f.
Myosotis tenuiflora (L.f.) Viv.
Rhytispermum tenuiflorum (L.f.) Rchb.f.