Myosotis abyssinica Boiss. & Reut.

Annual erect herb 5–12(–40) cm. high, entirely covered with bulbous-based hairs which are often surrounded with cystoliths; stems simple or slightly branched, slender.. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, 0.25–3.5 cm. long, 0.6–11 mm. wide, obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base; midrib visible beneath.. Flowers small, subsessile, in scorpioid cymes with a few leafy bracts in lower part only.. Calyx deeply divided into linear-lanceolate to oblong lobes 1.5–2 mm. long, slightly accrescent in fruit, hispid, some of the hairs hooked.. Corolla white or blue, glabrous, with slight constriction between the tube and lobes in dry state; tube cylindrical, 1–1.7 mm. long; lobes oblong to obovate, 0.6–0.8 mm. long, 0.4–0.6 mm. wide; swellings minute, papillate.. Stamens included.. Style 1.5 mm. long; stigma ± clavate.. Nutlets dark brown or black, 4 or often reduced to 1, compressed-ovoid, 1.2–1.4 mm. long, 0.8–1 mm. wide, shining, narrowly winged at the apex; areole basal, pale.. Fig. 24/1–8, p. 88.