Euphrasia taurica, Ganeschin

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 : 265

40. E. taurica Ganeschin in Popi., Spisok Rast. Sobr. Krymsk. Gos. Zapov. 87 (1931).

Stem up to 8 cm, erect, with short glandular and eglandular hairs, with (0—) 1—3 pairs of erect branches. Cauline internodes l-2(-2|) times as long as the leaves, the lower floral usually shorter than the leaves. Lowest flower at node (3-)4-7(-8). Leaves up to 8 mm, sparsely setulose and more or less densely covered with very short glandular hairs, usually trullate or rhombic, cuneate at base, with 2-3 pairs of narrowly triangular, subacute to aristate teeth. Corolla 4-5-6 mm, white. Capsule (4-5-)5-6 mm, shorter than or as long as the calyx, 2j-3 times as long as wide, elliptic-oblong, rounded or subtruncate, apiculate to cuspidate. Rocky and grassy places. • Mountains of Krym. Rs (K).