Erysimum hieraciifolium L., Cent. Pl. 1: 18. 1755; Hook. f. & T. Anderson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 153. 1872. E. strictum Gaertner f. in Mey. & Schreb., Pl. Wett. 2: 451. 1800. E. bhutanicum W. Smith in Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 10: 31. 1917.

Herbs, erect, stout or slender, up to 75 cm high, simple or branched; hairs usually 2-forked, appressed. Leaves elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, attenuate at base bearing 3 - 5 small teeth on either side, acute at apex, 3 - 10 x 0.5 - 1.5 cm, sparsely pubescent, mostly with 2-branched hairs; upper ones sessile or subsessile, basal petioled. Racemes 10 - 50-flowered, up to 40 cm long in fruit. Flowers 0.8 - 1 cm across, yellow; pedicels up to 1 cm long, upcurved, stout. Sepals narrowly oblong or ovate, ca 5 - 8 mm long. Petals orange, ca 1 cm long, 5 - 9 mm long, clawed; limb oblong, obovate, rounded or emarginate. Stamens ca 6 mm long. Fruits slender, erect, narrow, tetragonal, scaberulous, 3 - 8 cm long; style short, stout or slender. Seeds 1.7 - 2 mm across.

Fl. & Fr. May - Aug.

Distrib. India: River banks and hillsides. Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, China, S.E. Tibet, Temperate Asia and Northern Europe.

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