Veronica intercedens
Veronica intercedens
Kuz mavişi
Annual. Stems 5-15 cm, puberulent, with 2 pairs of leaves or sometimes a whorl of 4 leaves. Leaves subsessile, linear to linear-oblong, 15-30 x 3-6 mm, sparsely and very shortly pubescent on margin or completely glabrous, apex obtuse, margin entire to subserrate. Racemes 2-4, pseudoterminal, 5-20-flowered, puberulent with very short ad pressed curved eglandular hairs. Bracts lanceolate. Fruiting pedicels 7-12 mm, 1-2 x bracts, recurved and deflexed below fruit. Calyx lobes ovate to lanceolate, 6-9 x 3-5 mm in fruit, sepal pairs connate for 1,7-4 mm , acute, margin very shortly ciliate, otherwise glabrous. Corolla pale blue, 2-4 mm diam. Style 0,8-1,3 mm, slightly overto pping sinus. Capsule 3-4 x 4-5-5 mm, 2-lobed, sinus acute, 1-1,3 mm 1/3 x capsule), shortly puberulent , often glandular. Seeds 6-10, 1,5-2 x 1,2-1,8 mm, subglobose, cymbiform, slightly rugulose. Fl. 5. Shady places, 1500-2000 m.
Soviet Armenia , Iran, N. Iraq, Afghanistan, C. Asia. Ir.-Tur. element.
