Flora

Lonchophora capiomontana Durieu / Homotypic Synonyms: Matthiola capiomontana (Dur.) Pomel, it is an annual tomentose herb, up to 10-30 cm tall, with stellately branched usually sub equal hairs, erect or sub erect, branched from the base. Leaves narrowly elliptic, broadly triangular-denticulate to sub entire, sessile. Flowers purple-violet, sub sessile or sessile, on up to 15-flowered spike, distant. Sepals 7-9 x 1.5. Petals 15-20 x 1.5-3 mm. Siliquae 1.5-3 cm long, torulose, 4-6 (-8)-seeded in each locule, densely tomentose; basal appendages (3-) 5-7 mm long, one on each valve, up curved, flattish, tapering, tomentose; stigmatic appendages short spreading-straight, 1/3-I/2 as long as the basal appendages, acute; stigma 2-lobed, ellipsoid.

Reported from Libya by Keith

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286635-1

Link of images:  https://www.gbif.org/species/3052997

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286635-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/286635-1,  https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001217165,  https://www.gbif.org/species/3052997,  https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/141896/lonchophora-capiomontana-durieu,   https://efloramaghreb.org/specie/141896