Blepharis aspera Oberm.

Procumbent or prostrate shrub or shrubby herb; stems up to 35 cm long, puberulous or sparsely so when young. Leaves glossy (varnished), sparsely puberulous along midrib below and on lamina above, otherwise sparsely and minutely scabrid-puberulous with bulbous-based hairs; lamina elliptic or narrowly so (rarely obovate), largest 1.5-4.5(-10) x 0.4-1.2(-2.5) cm; margin on each side with 4-10 small and large triangular mucronate teeth (rarely some entire). Spikes 1.5-4(-5) cm long, 4-12-flowered; peduncle 3-5 mm long, with 3-4 pairs of gradually larger sterile bracts; fertile bracts dark green to almost completely whitish, uniformly minutely puberulous, sometimes with scattered longer hairs on veins, lower and middle obovate, 15-27 x 5-8 mm of which the recurved narrowly triangular spinose tip 5-11 mm, on each side with 3-6 teeth of which the longest 5-7 mm. Bracteoles 12-22 x 0.5-1 mm, linear-lanceolate, cuspidate, with widened base. Sepals uniformly minutely puberulous to puberulous, sometimes with slightly longer hairs on veins, ciliate; dorsal 14-19 mm long, 5-7-veined from base, ovate-elliptic, subligulate and narrowing gradually to the (1-)3-toothed apex (middle tooth usually smaller than two lateral), apical part becoming scarious; ventral 11-16 mm long, 5(-7)-veined from base, ovate-elliptic, narrowing gradually to an apex with 2 mucros or 2 triangular and mucronate teeth (0.5-) 1-2(-4) mm long (often with 1-2 small additional central teeth); lateral 6-9 mm long, ovate. Corolla blue or mauve, 20-27 mm long of which the tube 3-5 mm; limb obovate, 8-14 mm wide, central lobe longer than wide or same width, not or slightly narrowed at base, hairy all over beneath with downwardly directed hairs below base of central lobe; callus slightly ribbed apically; pedaments 6-8 mm long, glabrous or sparsely glandular; appendage 2.5-5 mm long, oblong, broadly rounded; anthers 3-5 mm long. Capsule (1-)2-seeded, 9-10 mm long; seed 5-7 x 3-4.5 mm.