Aethionema ermenekense

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Perennial, with woody caudex, multi-stemmed at the base; stems 4–12 cm long, erect–ascending, unbranched, glabrous, and glaucous. Leaves heteromorphic; stem leaves sub-fleshy, glaucous, subsessile or rarely sessile, alternate, oblong near to inflorescence, attenuate at base, obtuse at apex, 6–10 × 1–2.5 mm; glomerule leaves dense towards the base, fleshy, glaucous, subsessile, alternate–opposite, obovate, attenuate at base, obtuse at apex, 2.5–5 × 1.2–2.5 mm. Racemes capitate, corymbose, 0.5–1 cm long, slightly elongated in fruit. Pedicels 2–3 mm long in flowers, 3.5–4 mm in fruit, adpressed and recurved. Sepals oblong, violet margined with green band, 2.4–2.5 × 1–1.2 mm. Petals spatulate, 4.5–6 × 2.1–2.5 mm, pink, differentiated into claw and blade. Filaments free, inner not toothed, dilated at base, 1.5–1.6 mm long; outer 1–1.2 mm long; anthers yellow, apiculate, 0.5–0.8 mm long; stigma capitate, papillous; ovarium elliptic. Infructescence compact, imbricated, 1–2 cm long; fruits weakly cymbiform, dehiscent, obovate-orbicular, 7–9 × 7–10 mm, bilocular, 1-seeded per locule, cordate at base, cell 3.5–4.5 × 2.5–3 mm, septum 3.5–4.5 × 1.1–2 mm, entire or rarely undulate at margin, wing 2.5–3.5 mm long, sinus closed and 1.5–3 mm deep, style 0.1–0.2 mm long. Seed brown-gray ovate, 2.77–2.82 × 1.48–1.51, verrucate.

Endemic.