Erysimum pycnophyllum
Erysimum pycnophyllum
Yamaç zarifesi
Syn: E.thyrsoideum
Biennial herb. Stems erect or ascending, winged, 15-30 cm. Leaves linear to very narrowly oblanceolate, conferted below, forming a dense rosette, grey-white to silvery, with an indumentum of bifid hairs. Sepals saccate, 7-11 mm, somewhat persistent in fruit. Petals 14-18 mm, bright yellow. Siliquae dorsally compressed, 28-60 mm, grey to silvery, with an indumentum of bifid hairs. Style 3-4 mm, stigma bilobed. 2 subspecies may be recognised:
1. Indumentum silvery; leaves very narrowly oblanceolate; stigma clearly bilobed subsp. thyrsoideum
1. Indumentum grey-white; leaves narrowly oblanceolate to oblanceolate; stigma sub-bilobed subsp. ponticum
The species is endemic to Turkey and most resembles E. kotschyanus.
