Compilation
Aptosimum lineare

a low usually stunted undershrub, a few inches or scarcely 9 in. high, very densely cæspitose, shortly and sparingly or more or less densely pilose; stem sometimes procumbent and woody; branches densely crowded, short; branchlets densely leafy; leaves narrowly oblanceolate or linear, narrowed at the apex into an apiculus, attenuate to the robust subsessile or sessile base, 1 1/4–3 in. long, 1/28– 1/4 in. broad, finely hispidulous or sparingly glandular hairy, ciliate below, erect or ascending; midrib from a stout base tapering to the apex; flowers sessile or subsessile, shortly pubescent, 2/3–1 in. long; bracteoles narrowly linear, 1/3 in. long; calyx 1/4– 1/3 in. long, divided two-thirds way down into 5 narrowly lanceolate-linear acute pilose-ciliate lobes; corolla very bright deep blue; lower part of the tube much constricted; longer stamens reaching the middle of the broader part of the corolla-tube; anthers pilose; stigma subcapitate; style hairy below, very slender, somewhat exceeding the corolla; ovary compressed, ovoid, glabrous; fruit hard, almost woody, 1/6– 1/5 in. long, bivalved, bilocular; valves bifid at the apex; cells many-seeded; seeds black and scrobiculate. null