Notoceras R. Br.

Herbs, small, depressed, branched, hoary with bipartite medifixed appressed hairs. Leaves linear to oblanceolate, entire, sessile or subsessile. Racemes leaf-opposed. Flowers white, linear-oblong, not clawed, white. Sepals equal at base, erecto-patent, not saccate. Petals small, linear to oblong, not clawed, white. Stamens 6; filaments linear. Lateral nectar glands in pairs, minute; middle glands absent. Ovary subquadrate with 2 apical horns, 6 - 8-ovuled; style short; stigma minute, capitate. Fruit a short tardily dehiscent siliqua, rigid, linear to oblong, with 2 horns at apex; valves narrowly winged and keeled; style distinct; stigma capitate. Seeds 1-seriate, compressed, wingless; cotyledons accumbent.

Mediterranean region, eastwards to India; 2 species, one in India.

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