Family: Boraginaceae Genus: AnchusaSpecies description: Perennial, hispid with dense, patent, rigid or soft, often tubercle-based hairs; stems 20-150 cm, erect. Leaves (50-)100-300 x 15-50 mm. Cymes many; pedicels 1-3 mm, up to 10(-15) mm in fruit; bracts shorter than calyx. Calyx 6-8(-10) mm, up to 18 mm in fruit, divided almost to the base into linear, acute lobes. Corolla violet or deep blue; tube 6-10 mm, slightly exceeding or shorter then calyx; limb (8-)10-15 mm in diameter; stamens inserted at top of tube, overlapping scales. Nutlets (6-)7-10 x 2-3 mm, oblong-obovoid, erect.
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Distribution: S. & S.C. Europe; naturalized further north. Al Bl Bu Co Cr Ga Gr Hs Hu It Ju Rm Rs (w, K, E) Sa Si Tu [Au Cs Ge He] (heuk => Ho ?) Found: S.E.Spain; E.Sierra de Alcaraz Date: 21-4-94/ 4-5-96 Flora Europea:3-108 Literatuur:Notes:
Pictures: A.Voswinkel, The Netherlands email: aart@knoware.nl