Veronica ponae, Gouan

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 : 244

11. V. ponae Gouan , Obs. Bot. 1 (1773).

Sparsely pubescent throughout. Stems 10-50 cm, erect or ascending from a creeping stock. Leaves 15-60 x 6-30 mm, oblong-lanceolate to broadly ovate, subsessile, serrate. Racemes up to 15 cm, lax, usually solitary and terminal but rarely also with 1-2 axillary racemes; pedicels 8-20 mm, arcuate-ascending to suberect, exceeding the bracts. Calyx 3-5—4 mm; segments 4, somewhat unequal. Corolla c. 10 mm in diameter, bluish-lilac. Capsule 5-6 mm, suborbicular, slightly emarginate, pubescent; style 5-6 mm. Damp or shady places in the mountains. • Spain, Pyrenees. Ga Hs.

Specimens with axillary racemes can be mistaken for 12; this differs, however, in its shorter sepals, capsule and style, and in the sharply geniculate fruiting pedicels.