Aethionema uysalii

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Perennial, with woody caudex, multi-stemmed at the base; sterile shoots, 10.5–36 cm long, erect, unbranched, glabrous, and glaucous. Stem leaves not fleshy, glaucous, subsessile, alternate, oblanceolate, attenuate at base, obtuse and sometimes mucronulate at apex, 12–25 × 2–4.5 mm; leaves of sterile stems glaucous, petiolate, opposite rarely alternate, oblanceolate, attenuate at base, obtuse at apex 4–10 × 1.5–3 mm. Racemes capitate, 0.7–2 cm long, elongated in fruit. Pedicels 3–4 mm long in flowers, 4.5–5 mm in fruit, adpressed. Sepals oblong, white margined with violet band, 3–3.5 × 0.8–1.2 mm. Petals spatulate–obovate, 7.5–8 × 2.7–5 mm, pink, claw and blade not distinct. Filaments free; inners not toothed, dilated at base, 1.8–2.8 mm long; outers 1–1.5 mm long; anthers yellow, truncate, 0.5–0.9 mm long; stigma capitate, papillose; ovary elliptic. Infructescence compact, imbricated, 1.5–5 cm long; fruits cymbiform, dehiscent, obovate, 7.5–9.5 × 8–11 mm, bilocular, 1-seeded per locule, cordate at base, cell 3–4 × 2.5–3.5 mm, septum 3.5–4 × 1–1.3 mm, undulate at margin, wing dilated towards apex and 4.5–5.5 mm long, sinus open and 4–5 mm deep, style 0.5 mm long. Seed light-brown, ovate, 2.77–2.82 × 1.48–1.51 mm, verrucate.

Endemic.