Polygala azizsancarii

Chasmophytic, caespitose with robust taproot, 2–5 cm tall. Stems with many simple branches arising from base, rarely with turions, herbaceous, terete, together with leaves antrorse or crisped puberulous throughout. Leaves alternate; lower leaves sessile, obovate to spatulate, 3–6 × 2–3 mm, leathery, apex obtuse to rounded, stem leaves, sessile to minutely petiolate, oblong to narrowly elliptic, acute, 5–8 × 2–3 mm, carinate, margin entire. Inflorescence terminal, racemose; raceme 10–20 × 10–12 mm, lax, with 3 to 5 flowers; bracts deciduous with distinct scar, leaf-like, carinate, 1.8–2.2 × 0.2–0.3 mm, margin scarious; bracteoles in 1 pair, deciduos, scarious, lanceolate, carinate, 1–1.2 × 0.1–0.2 mm, glabrous, apex acute. Pedicel 2–2.3 mm, puberulous. Flower pale violet, 6–8 × 4–5 mm, glabrous. Sepals 5, persistent, glabrous; anterior sepals equal, lanceolate, 2.2–2.6 × 0.6–0.8 mm, apex acute; posterior sepal lanceolate, scarcely gibbous, 2.3–2.6 × 0.8–1.1 mm, apex acute; wing sepals petaloid, ovate-lanceolate, 6–8.5 × 2–4 mm, longer than fruit , pilose, veins not anastomosing, apex acute. Corolla 6–8 mm, shorter than wing sepals; Upper petals 1.9–2.2 × 1–1.1 mm, apex obtuse; keel 3.5–4 mm long, concave, crest densely fringed. Stamens 8, concealed by 2 concave part of anterior petal; filaments fused almost throughout their length; filament sheath glabrous, adnate to middle of corolla; anthers distinctly stipitate, 0.3–0.4 mm, opening by a pore at apex. Ovary oblong, 1–1.2 × 0.4–0.6 mm; style c. 2.5 mm; stigma trilobed, capitate. Fruit subsessile, obovate, 5–5.5 × 3–3.5 mm , bilocular, asymmetrical winged; wing 0.8–1 mm wide; style c. 0.1 mm. Seeds 2–2.5 × 1–1.2 mm, oblong, densely covered with sericeous stiff hairs; caruncle laterally elongate, 0.5 mm long, appendages absent.

Endemic