Bitumera, Steven

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 : 106

20. Bitumerà Steven 1

Perennial herbs. Flowers in ebracteate cymes in terminal panicles. Calyx lobed almost to the base, accrescent. Corolla blue or purple, very small, rotate, with campanulate tube, ovateorbicular lobes and 5 ciliate scales wider than long closing the throat. Stamens included, inserted at the middle of the tube. Style included; stigma capitate. Nutlets oblong-obovoid, erect, rugose or ribbed, with a thickened collar-like ring at the base.

Literature: M. Guçuleac, Bui. Fac. §ti. Cernäuji 2: 412-418 (1928); Feddes Repert. 29: 44-46 (1931).