Neslia apiculata Fischer, C. Meyer & Ave-Lall in Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 8: 68. 1842. N. paniculata (L.) Desv. subsp. thracica (Velent.) Bomm. in Ostter Bot. Zeitschr. 44: 125. 1894. N. thracia Velent. in Osteer. Bot. Zeitschr. 41: 122. 1891. N. paniculata auct. non. Desv. 1814; Hook. f. & T. Anderson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 164. 1872.

Herbs, annual, erect, 20 - 80 cm high; stems branched, ascending, pubescent. Radical leaves subsessile or petiolate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, entire or dentate, sagittate at base, acute at apex, 3 - 10 x 1 - 2 cm; cauline leaves sessile, linear to linear-oblong, sagittate-auricled at base, 1 - 8 x 0.3 - 1.5 cm. Racemes corymbose paniculate, 30 - 50-flowered, up to 30 cm long in fruit; pedicels up to 1 cm long in fruit, spreading. Sepals erect-spreading ca 2 mm long, yellowish with membranous margins. Petals linear-oblong, truncate, tapering at base, 2 - 3 x 1 mm. Fruits lentiform-subspherical, glabrous, alveolate and finely granular, ca 2 - 5 mm in diam; valves with a distinct midnerve, reticulately veined; style ca 1 mm long. Seeds brown, ca 1.5 mm in diam.

Fl. & Fr. March - Apr.

Distrib. India: Jammu & Kashmir.

c. & S.W. Asia, S. Europe and N.W. Africa.

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