Amblynotus rupestris
Synonyms: Myosotis rupestris; Amblynotus obovatus; Eritrichium davuricum; Eritrichium maackii; Eritrichium obovatum; Myosotis davurica; Myosotis obovata.
Region: Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia.
Botany
Herb; 6 to 8 cm tall.
Stem: several to numerous, erect, ascending or decumbent, slightly branched above, short strigose.
Leaves: densely strigose; basal and lower stem leaves narrowly spatulate, 0.7 to 1.5 cm long, 2 to 3 mmwide; base attenuate to a slender petiole; upper stem leaves sessile, narrowly obovate to linear-oblanceolate, smaller.
Inflorescences 1-3 cm, densely short strigose, several flowered; bracts narrowly obovate to linear-oblanceolate, but smaller.
Flowers: short pedicellate; blooming April to Jul.
Calyx: ± 2 mm, not enlarged in fruit.
Corolla: blue; tube; ± 1.5 mm; throat appendages lunate, fleshy; limb ± 5 mm wide; lobes spreading, obovate to rotund, ± 2 mm, margin entire.
Anthers: ± 0.9 mm.
Gynoecium: style ± 1 mm; stigma capitate.
Fruit: nutlets; light yellow-white; oblique ovate; 1.5 to 2 mm; adaxially longitudinally keeled, abaxially rounded, apex obtuse.
Seeds: brown, dorsiventrally compressed, ovate.