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CYNOGLOSSUM HOUND'S TONGUE
Perennial, biennial, ± hairy, taprooted.
Stem: erect.
Leaf: entire, basal petioled, cauline petioled or not.
Inflorescence: panicle-like cymes, ± terminal, bracted or not.
Flower: calyx ± deep-5-lobed, enlarged in fruit; corolla 5-lobed, funnel-shaped or salverform, blue to red-purple, appendages large; style entire.
Fruit: nutlets generally 4, spreading, 5–8 mm diam, ± spheric or disk-shaped, short- barbed-prickly, adaxial attachment scar at tip.
80 species: worldwide. (Greek: dog tongue)

Key to Cynoglossum

1. Infl ± among leaves; bracts ± leaf-like; corolla lobes dull red-purple, appendages purple; nutlet disk-shaped, abaxially ± flat, margin raised ..... C. officinale

1' Infl above leaves; bracts scale-like or 0; corolla lobes ± blue, appendages white; nutlet ± spheric, abaxially rounded, margin not raised

2. St glabrous, ± glaucous; basal leaf blades 3–10 cm wide, abruptly narrowed to petiole; cauline leaves few, petioled; corolla limb generally 10–15 mm diam ..... C. grande

2' St spreading-hairy, not glaucous; basal leaf blade 1–4 cm wide, tapered to petiole; cauline leaves ± many, sessile; corolla limb 4–9 mm diam ..... C. occidentale

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