Onosma orientalis
Onosma orientalis
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Perennial, patent to subadpressed long-hairy throughout, hairs on leaves arising from glabrous tubercles; hairs elsewhere lacking basal tubercles; densely short-hairy throughout, hairs often gland-tipped. Stems numerous, 7-16 cm, procumbent to erect, usually simple. Leaves 8-30 x 5-17 mm, ovate to lanceolate, sessile, acuminate to acute. Inflorescence dense at first, becoming lax and elongated. Bracts slightly smaller than leaves. Pedicels to 10 mm. Calyx 10-12 mm, lobes broadly lanceolate. Corolla blue, c. 10 mm, cylindrical, lobes elongate, acute, reflexed. Annulus subglabrous. Anthers 2 x filaments, ± completely exserted. Nutlets minute, c. 2·5 x 1·5 mm, beak ± horizontally incurved, warty to tuberculate, soilletimes rugose. Fl. 5-7. Walls, limestone rocks, 610-1200 m.
Palestine, Lebanon, Syrian Desert, N. Iraq, S. & W. lran. Ir.-Tur. element.
