Ochthodium aegyptiacum

Appearance

Stems erect or ascending, usually with spreading branches. Radical leaves 5-20 cm, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, lyrate or pinnatipartite; cauline leaves 2-6 cm, sessile or short-petioled, lanceolate or lanceolateoblong, undivided, dentate or crenate, rarely lyrate with few lateral lobes and a hastate terminal lobe.

Flowering racemes dense, particulate, elongating in fruit. Sepals about 2 mm, spreading. Petals 3-3.5 mm, oblong-spatulate. Fruiting pedicels 4-6 (--8) mm, thick, stiff, erect or spreading. Fruit about 4 x 3 mm, densely tuberculate-knobby, with a short pyramidal style. Flowers February-May.

Distribution

Eastern Mediterranean