Erysimum repandum L., Demonstr. Pl. 17. 1753; Hook. f. & T. Anderson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 153. 1872.

Herbs, annual, erect, diffusely branched, up to 40 cm high, hoary with close appressed hairs; hairs mostly medifixed, 2-partite or rarely trifid. Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, sinuate-dentate to almost entire along margins, 1 - 6.5 x 0.2 - 1 cm, lower ones petioled, upper sessile. Racemes densely 15 - 25-flowered, elongating to 25 cm in fruit. Flowers ca 6 mm across, yellow; pedicels up to 5 mm long in fruit. Sepals 3 - 6 mm long, not or slightly saccate at base. Petals ca 6 mm long, pubescent on back. Stamens ca 5 mm long. Fruits rigid or flexuous, torulose, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous, 2 - 8 cm long, 1 - 1.5 mm thick; style 2 - 5 mm long. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, ca 1.5 mm across.

Fl. & Fr. Apr. - June.

Distrib. India: Jammu & Kashmir.

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