Noccaea ali-atahanii
Noccaea ali-atahanii
Glabrous perennial herbs, 30–45 cm tall, with several simple, leafy stems arising from a fibrous rootstock. Basal leaves entire, obovate-spathulate; cauline leaves entire, amplexicaule or auriculate, often overlapping, ovate-oblong to ovate-cordate, glaucescent, 20–30 × 7–12 mm, apex obtuse to acute. Racemes simple, lax, 11–18 cm, 25–40-flowered, elongated in fruit; pedicels horizontally spreading to ascending, 5–7 mm in flower, 8–10 mm in fruit. Sepals purplish, 4–5 mm, not saccate to slightly saccate; petals rose-lilac, equal, 8–10 × 2.5–3.5 mm, oblong-obovate, attenuated into claw 2–3 mm, apex rounded; filaments linear, 4.8–5.1 and 5.7–6.2 mm ; anthers 1–1.3 mm, apiculate, yellow; median nectary absent; ovary obovate, 2.8–3.2 × 1.7–2.1 mm; 2-ovulate per locule; placentation apical; ovules 0.5–0.6 mm, oblong; stigma capitate. Fruit a silicle, strongly angustiseptate, obcordate to orbiculate, 8–10 × 6–9 mm, winged from the base to the apex. The width of the wings is almost equal in the middle and at the apex, 2.4–2.6 mm. Apex obtuse. Apical sinus narrow, 0.9–1.2 mm, notch depth 1–2 mm. Septum ca. 7.8–8.1 × 2.4–2.6 mm; style 2–2.5 mm in fruit. Seeds ± orbicular, smooth, 1 or 2 in each locule, 1.6–2.2 × 1.5–1.8 mm.
Endemic