Zaluzianskya pumila Walp.

Annual herb 20-230 mm tall, primary stem erect, simple or sparingly branched from the base and above, branches ascending or decumbent, pubescent with long (up to c. 1 mm) delicate acute hairs, retrorse, ± appressed. Leaves few, blade of radical leaves 5-30 x 3-15 mm, elliptic to oblong tapering into a broad flat petiolar part c. 3-15 mm long (roughly half as long as to almost equalling blade), cauline leaves c. 8-40 x 3-11 mm, elliptic tapering into a short petiolar part, all leaves with margins almost entire to distinctly toothed, thinly pubescent, hairs denser towards the base, long (to 2 mm), delicate. Flowers up to c. 20, at first crowded in a head, elongating into a crowded spike, the lowermost few flowers sometimes distant, open in sunshine. Bracts adnate to calyx for c. 6-10 mm, lowermost 16-40 x 3-10 mm, oblong, 3-5 pairs of deep narrow patent teeth in upper half, softly pubescent, hairs up to 1.3-2 mm long. Calyx 7-13 mm long, lips 2-3 mm long, sparsely pubescent, mainly on the ribs, hairs delicate, acute, up to c. 1 mm long, minutely glandular as well. Corolla tube (17-)21-32 mm long (throat 1.5-2 mm in diam.), sparsely and very minutely glandular, limb c. 10-22 mm in diam., regular, lobes 4.5-10 x 2-7 mm, deeply bifid (occasionally each lobe lobed again), Y-shaped, distally white or shades of mauve above, mauve to pink or red below, the tissue very thin, proximally thick-textured, the patch of thick tissue elliptic in outline, occupying nearly the whole of the shaft of the lobe, forming a yellow to orange or bright scarlet star around the mouth, base of each patch densely clothed in tiny sessile glands, these giving way to short (c. 0.4 mm) blunt hairs forming a wide band around the mouth. Stamens 4, anticous pair exserted, anthers 1.1-1.5 mm long, posticous pair included, anthers 2-2.5 mm long. Stigma 2.5-4 mm long, shortly exserted. Style 14-26 mm long. Ovary c. 3-5 x 0.7-2 mm, nectariferous gland peglike, remarkably long (c. 1 mm), lightly attached to extreme base of ovary. Capsules 10-12 x 5-6 mm. Seeds c. 1.5-1.7 x 1.2-1.5 mm, palest mauvish-grey, irregularly 3-4winged and deeply and very coarsely 'dimpled'. Flowering between July and September, principally in August.