Farsetia stylosa  

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Indumentum a dense cover of parallel, medifixed hairs Leaves mostly linear entire. Sepals not saccate. Floweres white, livid brown to purple. Petals clawed or not. Style distinct, stigma decur or globose. Fruits dehiscent

Farsetia stylosa
= Parselia hamiltoni Royle (1834); Manhiola prostrata Hochst. & Steudel. (1841); Farsetia prostrata (ochse &
(audei) Hochst. (1848),; Farsetia ramosissima Four. (1864); Farsetia depressa Kotschy (1866).
Aarual or perennial, woody based, much-branched herb up to 75 (-90) cm tall. Leaves linear, up to 4 (-8 5) cm x3 (-
7) mum. Racemes up to 20, much elonsated and lax in fruit. Flowers small, white to yellowish Sepals rarely exceeding
5 mm in length. Petals a little longer than sepals. Siliquas up to c. 3.5 cm x 3-4 mm, on upwards directed pedicels c. S
(in mm long Siyle persistent as a beak up to c. 3.5 mm long. Stigma short, capitate. Septum clear transparent; valves
thin with seeds visible through them.
Saudi Arabia: Widespread.
Distribution : Tropical & NE Africa, Arabia, Pakistan, India.

Flowers small, sepals rarely reaching 5 mm in length.

Wasan Alzahrani