Anchusa aegyptiaca, (L.) DC.

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 : 108

21. A. aegyptiaca (L.) DC. , Prodr. 10: 48 (1846).

Annual, hispid with stout, tubercle-based hairs; stems 5-30 cm, procumbent or ascending. Leaves 25-40 x 10-15 mm, oblong-ovate to -lanceolate, denticulate to sinuate-dentate. Cymes very lax, leafy; pedicels 2-3 mm, elongating and recurved in fruit; bracts leaf-like, exceeding calyx. Calyx c. 5 mm, divided almost to the base into linear-lanceolate, obtuse lobes. Corolla pale yellow; tube c. 4 mm, straight, slightly shorter than calyx; limb 3-5 mm in diameter, with 5 slightly unequal lobes; stamens inserted at about the middle of the tube, 2 higher than the other 3. Nutlets 4-5 x 2-3 mm, ovoid, erect. S. part o f Aegean region. Cr G r?Si.