Moricandia sinaica (Boiss.) Boiss.

Distinguished from M. arvensis (L.) DC. by its robust habit, large leaves and pods having very short beak.

It is perhaps browzed by camel and goats.

Perennating robust herb, 20-70 cm tall, thick and woody below, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, erect, branched. Lower leaves obovate, 4-11 cm long, 2-7 cm broad, usually entire, obtuse or rounded at the apex, narrowed into a short, petiole-like base; upper leaves ± ovate, 1.5-6 (-8) cm long, 1-6 cm broad, sessile, cordate, amplexicaul, entire with usually rounded apex; all leaves fleshy, glabrous, glaucous, sometimes slightly papillose-looking. Racemes few to 30-flowered, lax, up to 20 cm long in fruit. Flowers about 1 cm across, pink or violet; pedicel 3-5 mm long, hardly increasing in length in fruit, slightly thickened, ascending. Sepals 6-8 mm long, 2 mm broad. Petals 12-15 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, obovate-oblong, long clawed, apex subtruncate. Stamens about 7:9 mm long; anthers about 2 mm long. Siliquae linear, 45-80 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, compressed-terete, glabrous; valves with a prominent mid-rib; beak 1.5-3 mm long, conical with a bilobed (lobes decurrent) stigma; septum membranous with biseriate depressions formed by the seeds; seeds numerous, biseriate, very small, less than 1 mm long, ellipsoid, brown.

Distribution: Egypt, Sinai, Arabia, Iran and Pakistan.

Fl. Per.: July-October.

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