Cynoglossum glabellum
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Description
Perennial; rhizome divided into creeping branches.
Apart from the stems there are sterile rosettes of leaves. Leaves lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, acute, on the upper side with numerous, on the lower side with a few groups of mineralized cells very rarely bearing short hairs, ciliate in the margins; leaves of basal rosettes stalked, petiole 3-5 cm long, lamina 5-7 by 1-1.8 cm; lower stem leaves already dry at flowering time, middle ones 3-6 by 0.7-1.4 cm with narrowing base, upper ones 1.8-3 by 0.7-1 cm.
Inflorescence bifurcate with erect branches or simple, loose, 1.5-8 cm long, composed of only 7-11 flowers, ebracteate; pedicels 4-6 mm long, recurved in fruit.
Stamens: filaments distinct, 0.2 mm long, anthers oblong to ovate-oblong, 0.8 mm long, inserted below fornices.