Scrophulariaceae

C. minus (L.) Lange in Willk. & Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. 2:577 (1870).
Erect slender annual, 10-40 cm, glandular-pubescent. Stems usually flexuous and laxly branched. Lowest cauline leaves oblanceolate, subpetiolate, median linear-oblanceolate. subsessile. Racemes elongate, lax; pedicels 8-18 mm in fruit, ascending-erect, equalling or longer than leaf-like bracts. Calyx lobes 2-3 mm in flower, oblong-linear, erect and elongating in fruit. Corolla mauve, 6-7 mm; spur, 2-3 mm, cylindrical or tapering, subacute. Capsule broadly ellipsoid, as long as or slightly longer than calyx. Seeds 0.5-0.7 mm, blackish, oblong-ellipsoid, ribs low, often sinuate, entire, eroded or verrucose. lower than width of minutely and subobtusely papillose valleculae (S.E.M. x 220!). Fl. 6-8.
1. Seeds 0.5-0.7 mm, ribs with entire or eroded margin; capsule 4-5 mm; bracts usually as long as fruiting pedicels subsp. minus
1. Seeds 0.5 mm, ribs obtusely dentate almost to base (appearing verrucose under x 10 lens); capsule 3-4 mm; bracts usually shorter than fruiting pedicels subsp. anatolicum
subsp. anatolicum Davis in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 36:3, t. 1B (1978). Figure 21, p. 655. Nr streams, on shale, in rocky places, 600-1100 m.
Type: A4 Ankara: Baghloum, N. of Ankara, 15 viii 1907, Fréres de I`École Chretien 413 (holo. G!).
Mainly lnner Anatolia; scattered. A7 Gümüşane: Sobran to Yamurdere, Sint. 1894:5753! B4 Ankara: Beynam, 1100 m, D. 13062! C6 Gaziantep: Aintab (Gaziantep), vi 1884, Hb. Post (BM)!
Endemic, and perhaps more widespread than the records suggest. A damaged specimen from Is: Samos (mt. Kerki, 1000 & 1450 m, Runemark & Nordenstam 16934!) may belong here but the seeds are larger (c. 0.7 mm).