Perennial herb with erect annual shoots up to 20 cm high. Stems minutely scabro-puberulous, glabrescent. Basal leaves in a rosette, 4-6 cm long, 0-8-1-5 cm broad, obovate or oblanceolate, entire or lyrate-pinnatifid with short, ovate, outwardly curved lobes, petiolate, the base of the petioles exÂpanded, lower surface and margin of petiole puberulous; lower surface of blade or only the nerves, and margin of blade puberulous; upper surface glabrous. Stem leaves few, sessile, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, entire, margin puberulous. Racemes terminal, fairly lax in fruit; rhachis subglabrous or minutely puberulous. Pedicels subglabrous or puberuÂlous; in fruit ascending or arcuate, 3-5-6 mm long. Sepals 1 • 3-1 • 5 mm long, ovate-oblong or obovate, membranous-margined, glabrous. Petals 1-1-2 mm long, linear-spathulate, white. Stamens 6; filaments subulate. NectaÂries small, inconspicuous. Siliculae 4 x 2-2-2-5 mm, ± rhomboid, narrowed towards both ends, not emarginate; style prominent, 0-2-0-4 mm long. Fig. 12 : 4.
