Heliotropium bacciferum

Appearance

Perennial, decumbent or procumbent with a woody base, short and stout up to 15 mm thick at base. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 5-55 x 2-16 mm, flat or t terete, hairy on both surfaces, margin revolute, longer hairs stiff, up to 2 mm long, arising from bulbous base. Inflorescence reduced, up to 20 mm long, bearing close set uniseriate flowers. Calyx persistent, 2-2.5 mm long, 5-partite into lanceolate lobes, hairy to the outside; hairs often stiff and arising from a bulbous base. Corolla white, c. 2.5-3 mm long; tube shortly cylindrical, hairy outside, glabrous within; lobes imbricate, 0.7-0.8 mm long, oblong to suborbicular, crenulate to t undulate. Anthers 1-1.2 mm long, elongate, broader at base, attached c. 1.1 mm from the corolla base, slightly furrowed and sometimes 2-fid at apex. Style shorter than stigma. Fruit globose, usually hairy when young; nutlets 4, brown, margin winged, back rugulose, sometimes with a membranous inflated back.

Distribution

N. Africa, Arabia, Pakistan