Triguera ambrosiaca, Cav.

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 : 200

1. T. ambrosiaca Cav. , Monad. Class. Diss. Dec. 2, App.". 2 (1786).

Annual, smelling of musk. Stems 15-45 cm, subsulcate, glabrous. Leaves ovate to obovate, entire to deeply sinuatedentate, glabrous or sparsely villous, the lower petiolate, the upper sessile and slightly decurrent. Flower-pairs distant; pedicels 10-15 mm, nodding, arising from small cupuliform glands on a short common peduncle, tomentose. Calyx c. 1 cm, densely tomentose. Corolla 1-5-2-5 cm, violet with blackish throat; lobes rounded, mucronate. Ovary glabrous, half enclosed by nectary. Berry c. 1 cm in diameter, surrounded by the accrescent calyx; seeds 5 mm, brownish-black. Roadsides and waste places. S. Spain. Hs. (A. Africa.) T. inodora Cav. , op. cit. 3 (1786), from S. Spain (near Cordoba), appears to have been collected only once. It is like 1 but is scentless, has entire, lanceolate, glabrous, sessile leaves, glabrous pedicels and calyx, the corolla has a pale violet throat and muticous lobes with 5 yellowish-white lines, and the ovary is completely enclosed by the nectary.