Isatis lucitanica L., it is an annual, usually glabrous and glaucous herb, up to 70 cm tall. Basal leaves pinnately lobed, glabrous or hirtellous, soon shrivelling sub sessile or shortly petioled. Upper leaves oblong, auricled at base, sub entire, variable. Flowers small, 3-5 mm across, yellowish. Pedicels 7-12 mm long in fruit, deflexed, filiform. Sepals c. 2 mm long, Petals 2-3.5 mm long. Stamens c. 1.5-2 mm long; anthers c.0.7 mm. Fruits oblinear 12-22 x 2-4 mm flattened, thickish narrowly winged, with locule slightly above the middle of the fruit, apex obtuse or emarginate, adpressedly pubescent to sub glabrous, usually margined with short deflexed hairs. Seed oblong, c. 3 mm long.
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