Parrya nudicaulis (L.) Regel in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 34(3): 176. 1861. Cardamine nudicaulis L., Sp. Pl. 654. 1753. Arabis nudicaulis (L.) DC., Syst. Nat. 2: 240. 1821. Neurotoma nudicaule (L.) DC., Prodr. 1: 156. 1824. Panya macrocarpa R. Br. in Parry's Voy., app. 11: 270. 1824; Hook. f. & T. Anderson in Fl. Brit. India 131. 1872.

Herbs, 7 - 40 cm high, sparsely glandular-tomentose or rarely subglabrous; rhizome stout, long. Basal leaves rosulate, lanceolate, sinuate-toothed or entire, 5 - 15 cm long, glandular, long-petioled. Scapes up to 38 cm long in fruit; racemes 10 - 15-flowered. Flowers ca 2 cm across; pedicels 1 - 3 (-5) cm long in fruit. Sepals 5 - 10 mm long. Petals obovate, 10 - 20 mm long. Stamens ca 1 cm long; anthers ca 2 mm long. Fruits compressed, attenuate at base and apex, undulate along margins, 3 - 6 x 0.4 - 0.5 cm. Seeds many, suborbicular, broadly winged, ca 4 mm across.

Fl. & Fr. May - July.

Distrib. India: Jammu & Kashmir.

Pakistan, Afghanistan, C. & N. Asia and Arctic Europe.