Scrophulariaceae

V. pusilla Kotschy, Pl. Pers. Austr. (Ed. Hohenacker), no. 717 (1845) non Bentham in DC. (1846).
Annual, erect, 2-8(-15) 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, 2-6(-12)x 0.5-2.5(-3.5) mm, entire, glabrous (rarely margin puberulent). Raceme l-15(-25)-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-)3.5-7 mm, 0.8-1.2(-2.5) 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, (1 .5-)2-2.5(-3) x (2.5-)3-4(-4.5) 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, (0.9-)l-l.4x (0.5-)0.6-0.8 mm, pale, convex, dorsally sub-rugulose, ventrally with a large, slightly elevated chalazal podium, seeds therefore ± marginate (similar to V. reuterana but less distinct); 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
var. pusilla. Syn: V. perpusilla Boiss. ex A.DC. in Bentham in DC, Prodr. 10:490 (1846) nom. illegit., p.p.! ?V. minima (C.Koch) C.Koch in Linnaea 22:700(1849); V. glaberrima Boiss. & Bal. in Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2(3): 172 (1856)! V. conferta Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:459 (1879)! Ic: Öst. Bot. Zeitschr. 120:416 f. lp-t (1972).
Type: [Iran] Persia australis, in locis humidis montis Kuh-Daena (Kuh-e-Dinar), 21 vii 1842, Kotschy 717 (Ed. Hohenacker 1845) (holo. W! iso. WU!).
Mainly Inner Anatolia. A4 Ankara: 26 km N. of Kizilcahamam, 1300 m, Sorger 71-3-4 (2n= 14)! A8 Rize: above Cimil, c. 2440 m, Bal. A9 Kars: S.W. side of Kisir Da., 2300 m, D. 30496! B5 Kayseri: Erciyas Da., Tekir Y., 2200 m, 30 vi 1902, Zederbauer! B9 Erzurum: S.W. spur of Çakmak Da., above Karayazı, 2900 m, Watson et al. 1660! B9 Van: d. Şatak, Kavuşşahap Da., 2740 m, D. 23054! B10 Ağri: Tendürek Da., 2400 m, 8 vi 1975, A.Öztürk 26 d2! C2 Antalya: Ak Da., vi-vii 1968, Quézel et al.! C5 Niğde: above Boulgarmaden (Bolkar Maden), Bal. 1855:689 (type of V. glaberrima)! C10 Hakkari: Cilo Tepe, 3290 m, D. 24051!
Soviet Armenia(?), Lebanon(?), Iran, Afghanistan. Ir.-Tur. element. Almost no literature records have been accepted because of confusion with other taxa.