Erucaria Sp
Diagnostic description:
Erucaria sp
Arabic name : سُليح
Saudi arabi : widespread
Distribution : N & NE Africa, Mediterranean region, SW Asia
General characteristics :
- An annual
- Branched
- Glabrous to sparsely briefly-hairy herb
- 60 cm tall
- Leaves 1-2 pinnately lobes, the lobes linear to linear-oblong; rarely not pinnatisect but only shallowly
- erect and appressed to the stem
- lowe segment 1 - 6 seeded up to 10 (-17) mm long at maturity
- upper segment 1 -3 seeded
- usually prominently torulose and about half the length of the lower segment at maturity
- Abruptly narrowed into filiform persistent style
Example:
Petals purple
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