Onosma
Meikle, R.D. 1985: Flora of Cyprus 2 but modified and supplemented
1 | Flowers mostly blue |
1' | Flowers yellow (sometimes turning orange or brownish with age) |
2 | Anthers exserted from corolla-tube |
2' | Anthers included in corolla-tube |
3 | Indumentum simple, not stellate-pilose; flowers solitary or few at the apex of rigid, woody, subspinose branches; nutlets c. 3.5 x 2 mm |
3' | Indumentum closely stellate-pilose; flowers numerous in unilateral, scorpioid cymes; nutlets c. 4.5 x 3 mm |
4 | Robust, erect biennial, more than 30 cm high; indumentum stellate-pilose; inflorescence an elongate panicle of cymes; corolla 15-20 mm long |
4' | Suffruticose, tufted perennials less than 30 cm high; indumentum simple, not stellate-pilose; inflorescence a terminal, corymbiform cyme; corolla 15-17 mm long |
5 | Basal leaves crowded, rosulate, spathulate, 10-20 x 4-8 mm |
5' | Basal leaves not crowded or rosulate, oblanceolate or narrowly spathulate, 10-40 x 3-13 mm |