Elizaldia calycina, (Roemer & Schultes) Maire

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 : 103

1. E. calycina (Roemer & Schultes) Maire , Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord 20: 192 (1929)

( E. nonneoides Willk. ).

Densely setose-hispid annual; stems c. 30 cm, ascending, branched at the base. Leaves 3-7 x 0-5-1 - 5 cm, linear-oblong or -lanceolate, acute, subentire. Flowers in dense, leafy cymes; pedicels 1 - 5-3 mm. Calyx c. 8 mm in flower, 12-16 mm and violet in fruit; teeth linear-lanceolate, l |- 2 times as long as tube. Corolla 10-12 mm; limb c. 5 mm in diameter, violet, with semicircular lobes. Nutlets c. 3 x 5 mm, obliquely ovoid, longitudinally and transversely ribbed, keeled, deeply excavate at base with a peglike attachment; collar-like basal ring strongly ribbed. Under bushes on maritime sands. S. W. Spain (near Cadiz). Hs. (N. W. Africa.)

Not found recently, and perhaps extinct in Europe; the European plant is subsp. multicolor (G. Kunze) Chater , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 64: 69 (1971) ( Nonea multicolor G. Kunze ) which also occurs, with the typical subspecies, in N.W. Africa.