Veronica erciyasdagi

Erciyes mavişi

Syn: V.pusilla var erciyesdagi

Annual, erect, 2-8 cm, unbranched or slightly branched above, blackening when dry. Stems puberulent with upward-curved 0.05-0.2 mm hairs, eglandular. Petiole 0-1 mm, lamina elliptic, oblanceolate or oblong, rarely linear, 2-6x 0.5-2.5 mm, entire, glabrous . Raceme l-15-flowered, sometimes dense, axis usually ± flexuous; with or without eglandular hairs, without or with very few scattered 3-4-celled 0.1-0.2 mm glandular hairs, rarely more densely glandular-puberulent. Fruiting pedicels 3.5-7 mm, 0.8-1.2 x bracts, patent at base, usually arcuate-erect, rarely ± hooked, usually without glandular hairs, often completely glabrous. Bracts oblong or subspathulate, often similar to leaves. Calyx lobes oblong to obovate. Corolla pale blue or white, 2-3 mm diam. Style 0.3-0.6 mm. Capsule hygrochastic, suborbicular, 2-2.5 x 3-4 mm, slightly exceeding calyx, pale straw-coloured, usually glabrous, sinus acute, ½ x capsule, lobes erect, not divergent; base broadly truncate to subcordate; style ⅓-½ x sinus. Seeds 10-20, elliptic to oblong, l-l.4x 0.6-0.8 mm, pale, convex, dorsally sub-rugulose, ventrally with a large, slightly elevated chalazal podium, seeds therefore ± marginate ; sticky when wet. 2/7= 14. Fl. 6-8. Ditches, banks of streams, damp earth, wet pastures, 1300-3300 m.

 1. Raceme and capsule completely glabrous or sparsely eglandular-puberulent, without or with very few scattered glandular hairs var. pusilla
 1. Bracts and calyx, especially on margins, margin of leaf and keel of capsule glandular-puberulent . var. erciyasdagi