Arabis lycia

Bakır kazteresi

A low-growing cushion-forming perennial with numerous pink- to mauve-flowered racemes on rather tiny scape-like stems; cushions flat, ± compact, up to 5-15 cm diam., 6-10 cm high; with a stout, woody rootstock. Leaves mostly basal in mid-green rosettes, 6-12 × 3-6 mm, densely and softly tomentose of whitish to slightly yellowish, 0.3-0.5 mm long, 3-4-fid long-stalked “stellate” or, more rarely, dendroid and only few simple hairs , obovate-spathulate, apex obtuse to bluntly acute, base gradually narrowed to a flattened petiole 2-3 mm long, margin entire or very rarely with a very blunt tooth; the previous leaves or their remains densely clothing the stem below the present year’s rosette, giving the rosette shoot a columnar appearance; cauline leaves 1-2, soon falling off , broadly lanceolate, acute, sessile with a subcuneate base, 3-5 mm long and up to 2 mm wide, with entire margins and the same indumentum as the basal leaves and the stem. Stems unbranched, 2.5-5 cm long , slender , at base with a rather dense indumentum, above and at the end of flowering glabrescent. Inflorescence 4-8-flowered, at first corymbose, later forming a short raceme c. 2-2.5 cm long and c. 1.5 cm wide, not or hardly elongating in fruit; rhachis and pedicels with a very thin indumentum or glabrous. Pedicels slender, ascending, 5-8 mm long. Sepals greenish with paler, partly translucent margins, partly or totally flushed pinkish to purplish, with a few branched and some more simple hairs at back; outer sepals oblong-ovate, flat to slightly concave, obtuse, margins sometimes somewhat undulate-sinuate, c. 2.5 × 1.2 mm, moderately saccate at base; inner sepals boat-shaped, concave, obtuse to bluntly acute, margins entire, 3-3.5 × 2-2.5 mm, conspicuously saccate at base. Petals pink or mauve, with nerves a little darker, 6-8 × 3-3.5 mm, obovate, rounded at apex, margins ± undulate-sinuate and auriculate, gradually tapering to base. Stamens 2.5-3.5 mm long, filaments yellowish-whitish, apically often flushed pink, filiform, only somewhat flattened; anthers oblong, yellow, 0.8-1.1 × 0.4 mm. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, c. 4 × 0.3-0.4 mm; style short but distinct, c. 0.5 mm long; stigma stoutly capitate. Siliquae erect or spreading-erect, straight or slightly curved, 10-14 mm long, at the broadest part c. 1.5 mm wide, apex acute, crowned by persistent style and stigma, base rather abruptly tapering to pedicels; valves pale brown tinged purplish, somewhat shining and keeled; seeds unknown.

Endemic.