Lappula echinophora, (Pallas) O. Kuntze

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 : 118

3. L. echinophora (Pallas) O. Kuntze , op. cit. 214 (1887)

( Heterocaryum echinophorum (Pallas) Brand ).

Annual, hispid with erecto-patent hairs often arising from small tubercles. Stem 5-50 cm, erect, often branched. Leaves 15-50 x 1-10 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, the lower petiolate, the upper sessile. Pedicels up to 5 mm, erect. Calyx c. 2 mm in flower, c. 5 mm in fruit. Corolla 2-2-5 mm; limb infundibuliform, pale blue or whitish. Nutlets unequal in size, the larger 5-7 mm, the smaller 4-5 mm, oblong, attached to the receptacle by their whole length; upper surface flat, sometimes with a row of giochidia down the centre; margin raised, with 1 row of giochidia. Stony places and steppes. • S.E. Russia, W. Kazakhstan. Rs (E).