Derivation: After C. A. L. Bellardi, 1741-1826, Professor of Botany at Turin University.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Fl. Ped. 1:61 (1785).

Description:
Annual herbs; leaves opposite, sessile.

Flowers subtended by a leaf-like bract but no bracteoles, in terminal spike-like racemes; calyx broadly cup-shaped, the 4 teeth separated by 2 long median clefts and 2 very short lateral clefts; corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip hood-like, emarginate, the lower longer and broader than the upper, 3-lobed; stamens 4, in pairs of unequal length, held in a U-configuration under the hooded upper corolla lip, the anthers eglandular-hairy, with the 2 cells of each equally awned at the base, shedding pollen introrsely by an attenuated pore located above the awn; stigma clavate.

Capsule loculicidal; seeds c. 0.6-71 mm long, numerous, longitudinally coarsely ribbed, not winged, with finer transverse ribs between, with a basal hilum.

Distribution:  A single species, native in the Mediterranean region.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available