Ammosperma variabile Nègre & Le Houár., it is an annual (or biennial), whitish-cancscent herb, much branched from the base. up to 25 cm tall, erect to sub spreading, with a basal rostte of leaves with each branch; hairs simple, hispid. Leaves deeply pinnatisect to entire, 30-50 x 6-10 mm, narrowed below, sessile, 3-5-lobed to entire; lobes oblong, 2-8 x 1-2.5 mm; sub obtuse or rounded at the apex, entire. Racemes 10-I5-flowered, corymbose, lax in fruit, ebracteate. Flowers white, pink or violet, pediculate. Pedicels ascending or spreading in fruits, 5-10 mm long, somewhat thickened. Sepals 6-8 x 1-1.5 mm, densely pubescent. Petals 8-10 x 2.5-3.5 mm, oblong-obovate, entire, sub rounded or rounded at the apices. Stamens 6; filaments linear; anthers oblong-linear, c. 1.5 mm long. Stigma very broad, bi- or sub bilobed, on short and broad style. Siliquae 30-50 x 2 mm, sub terete; valves conspicuously nerved, rigid, hispid; seeds many, sub biseriate, c. 1 mm, ovoid-suborbicular, yellowish; septum white-membranous.
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