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A very polymorphic species with short and tall plants, smaller and larger fruits with densely hairy to glabrous valves.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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eFloras.org
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Description

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Annual, up to 20 cm tall, erect or suberect, branched mostly from the base, clothed with short branched or stellate appressed hairs. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate or oblong, rarely spathulate, sessile, 5-20 mm long, 1.5-4 mm borad, entire. Racemes 25-50-flowered, up to 10 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 1.5 mm across, yellowish; pedicel up to 4 mm long in fruit, filiform, recurved. Sepals c. 1.5 mm long. Petals about as long as the sepals, linear-oblong, cuneate, apex subemarginate. Stamens c. 1.2: 1.5 mm long; filaments appendaged-dentate. Siliculae orbicular, suborbicular or broadly elliptic, very variable in size and hairiness, usually 4-5 mm in diam., biconvex; apex distinctly notched with a short, subsessile stigma; valves somewhat membranous, narrowly winged (margined), equally tumid, usually covered with simple, ± verruculose hairs, sometimes glabrous; seed 1, 1.5-2 mm in diameter.
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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
project
eFloras.org
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Distribution

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Distribution: C. and W. Europe, Mediterranean region, S.W. Asia, eastward to Pakistan.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
project
eFloras.org
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Flower/Fruit

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Fl. Per.: May-June.
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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras