Noccaea oppositifolia

Bodur kayagülü

Syn: Aethionema oppositifolium

Dwarf cushion-forming, caespitose, perennial with simple flowering stems 2-5 cm. Leaves more or less fleshy, orbicular or obovate, opposite, subopposite or alternate, sessile, finely papillose, scabrid on margins or not. Sepals purple. Petals pink or lilac, many-nerved on blade, 6-8 x 3-4 mm. Median honey glands present, sometimes absent. Filaments neither connate nor dentate; anthers not apiculate. Inflorescence capitate, compact, scarcely elongating in fruit. Ovary 2-locular, each with 2 ovules, rarely 3-4. Fruiting pedicels erect-spreading, 3-7 mm. Siliculae ovate-elliptic, slightly emarginate, acute or rounded at apex, 6-8 x 3-6 mm; wings absent or c. 1 mm at apex of fruit; style 0,5 mm; septum 6-7 x 2-3 mm. Seeds 2 not mucilaginous, radicle incumbent or almost accumbent. Fl. 6-7. Scree, rock crevices, stony slopes, 2000-3000 m.

Lebanon, Transcaucasia.