Echiochilon longiflorum Benth.

Glaucous annual or perennial herb ; up to ± 40 cm high , with a ± woody base . Stems erect , branched , young branches finely ribbed , glabrous to hispid with disc-based or bulbous-based adpressed or spreading hairs and glandular hairs . Leaves alternate , few lower ones opposite , 3–40 × 1–9 mm , lanceolate , base cuneate to attenuate , apex acute to obtuse , glabrous to hispid disc- or bulbous- based hairs . Inflorescences in elongate , erect , ± unilateral many-flowered cymes ; pedicel 0 . 5–4 mm . Flowers yellowish or white with a bluish tube , obliquely funnel-shaped , zygomorphic ; calyx less than half as long or equalling the corolla tube , 4–5-lobed , lobes unequal , ± free , 2 . 5–8 mm , the adaxial smallest , lanceolate , sparsely hairy ; corolla yellowish or white with a bluish tube , 12–16 mm , obliquely funnel-shaped , zygomorphic , ± 2-lipped ; tube 3–10 mm , two adaxial lobes forming an emarginate upper lip , 3 abaxial lobes forming the lower lip , glabrous , rarely glandular hairy ; stamens attached at ... throat at ± different heights ; anthers included . Fruit nutlets , 1–2 mm , cordate with a rostrate apex , reddish or greyish , tuberculate , usually 1–4 developing . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

No Data

Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

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