Myosotis refracta, Boiss.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 113

16. M. réfracta Boiss. , Voy. Bot. M idi Esp. 2: 433 (1841).

Annual; stem up to 25 cm, often shorter, usually rigidly erect, leafy up to the lowest flowers, with patent, lanate indumentum above and hooked hairs below. Leaves 4 x 1 cm, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, rarely ovate, the lower surface with hooked hairs. Flowers lax below, crowded above. Pedicels scarcely more than 1 mm in fruit, almost always deflexed at maturity. Calyx up to 4-5 mm in fruit, divided to c. J, open, deciduous, with strongly deflexed, hooked hairs and short, delicate straight hairs at the base. Limb of corolla up to 1-5 mm in diameter, flat, or rather smaller and saucer-shaped, pale to bright blue. Nutlets 2 x 1 mm, ellipsoid or narrowly obovate, brown, with a small, lateral attachment-area, distinct rim and, on the inner side, a furrow running from apex to base. Mountains o f S. Spain, E. Mediterranean region and Krym. Cr G r Hs Ju Rs (K).

1 Only the lowermost pedicels deflexed in fruit; leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate (c) subsp. aegagrophila

1 All pedicels deflexed in fruit; leaves narrowly to rather broadly lanceolate

2Calyx-tube ±evenly covered with hooked hairs; calyces not appressed in fruit (a) subsp. réfracta

2Calyx-tube without hooked hairs in lower |; calyces closely appressed in fruit (b) subsp. paucipilosa