Alkanna malatyana

Perennial, dwarf caespitose, stem 3–10 cm long, up to 1 mm long spreading pilose, sparsely setiform hairy up to 1.5 mm and ± glandular hairy. Roots reddish. Basal leaves oblanceolate to spathulate, 4–17 mm wide and 20–60 mm long, obtus to acute; densely tuberculate setiform, pilose, and ± glandular hairy. Cauline leaves oblong, lanceolate to eliptic, 4–11 mm wide and 6–22 mm long, densely tuberculate setiform, pilose, and ± glandular hairy. Cymes 1 per stem, c. 4–8 cm long in fruit. Bracts lanceolate to eliptic, 2–8 mm wide and 5–20 mm long, densely to sparsely tuberculate setiform, pilose, and ± glandular hairy. Pedicels erect, 1–2 mm long at flowering, recurved 2–3 mm long in fruit and pilose, without tuberculate setiform, and glandular hairy. Calyx, 1.5–2 mm wide and 5–6 mm long in flowering time, 2–2.5 mm wide and 6–7 mm long in fruiting time, pilose, without tuberculate setiform, and glandular hairy. Corolla golden yellow, 10–12 mm long, glabrous outside, limb 5–7 mm in diam., tube 1.5–2 mm wide and 8–9 mm long, lobes 2–3 mm wide and 2–3 mm long. Nutlets 2–3 mm wide, cream to pale fawn, densely tuberculate; beak horizontal to slightly curved.