Buchnera hispida Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

Semi-parasitic , annual herb ; up to 10–20 cm high , drying black . Stems erect , slender , simple or branched , branches widely spreading , pilose to hispid or scabrid . Leaves alternate or opposite ; basal leaves forming a rosette ; cauline reducing in size upwards ; upper leaves 15–25(–50) × 1–2 . 5 mm , linear to linear-lanceolate , acute or obtuse , entire or obscurely dentate , 1-veined ; lower leaves 45–54(–75) × 9–12(–25) mm wide , lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate to broadly or narrowly oblong , acute or obtuse , cuneate , entire to coarsely irregularly dentate , 3-veined ; all leaves hispid-scabrid . Inflorescences in terminal slender spikes , sessile or with short pedicels ; bracts 4–5 × 0 . 8–1(–3) mm , ovate to lanceolate , acute or acuminate , pilose , hispid or glabrous with ciliate margins ; bracteoles 2 . 8–4 mm , linear-lanceolate to subulate . Flowers blue , mauve to purple or white ; calyx 4–8 mm long , 10-veined , sparsely to densely hispid to pilose ; lobes 1–2 mm , linear-lanceolate ; corolla blue , mauve to purple or white ; tube 6–7 . 5 mm , cylindric , ... straight or rarely curved , glabrous or pilose ; lobes 2–2 . 8 mm , obovate to obovate-oblong , throat villous . Fruit capsule , 5 × 3 mm , ovoid . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

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Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

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