Nonea Medicus

16. Nonea Medicus View in CoL 1

Annual or perennial, hispid herbs. Flowers in bracteate, terminal cymes. Calyx lobed to £ -j, accrescent. Corolla yellow, purple, brown or white, with cylindrical tube and infundibuliform limb, with 5 hairy or laciniate scales, or 5 tufts of hairs, or a ring of hairs in the throat. Stamens included in corolla-tube, inserted at about or above the middle of the tube. Style included; stigma entire to bifid. Nutlets ovoid to reniform, erect or oblique, smooth or ribbed, with a thickened collar-like ring at the base. All are plants of dry, often waste places. 1 Nutlets longer than wide 2 Corolla yellow; nutlets rugose and reticulately ribbed 1. lutea 2 Corolla blue, brown or purplish; nutlets smooth or weakly longitudinally ribbed 2. obtusifolia 1 Nutlets wider than long 3 Calyx-teeth at least | as long as tube 4 Flowers brownish-purple; nutlets constricted just above the base 9. vesicaria 4 Flowers pale purplish, yellowish or white; nutlets not constricted above the base 5 Corolla purplish; leaves mostly less than 1 cm wide 5. caspica 5 Corolla yellowish or white; leaves mostly more than 1 cm

wide 4. pallens 3 Calyx-teeth c. £ as long as tube 6 Nutlets ± symmetrical, reniform 7. ventricosa 6 Nutlets asymmetrical, obliquely ovoid 7 Limb of corolla more than 9 mm in diameter 6. versicolor 7 Limb of corolla less than 9 mm in diameter 8 Corolla (9—)10—14 mm, usually dark reddish- or blackishpurple; nutlets 2-5-3 x 3-5-5 mm 3. pulla 8 Corolla 7-8 mm, pale blue or yellowish; nutlets c. 1-5x3

mm 8. micrantha