Alyssum densistellatum, T. R. Dudley

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 302

41. A. densistellatum T. R. Dudley , Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 24: 160 (1962)

( A. praecox auct. graec.).

Diffuse to subcaespitose, grey or grey-green perennial up to 10 cm, non-flowering stems with rosettes of leaves. Basal leaves obovate-spathulate, acute, with petiole up to 4 mm; cauline oblanceolate; hairs c. 0- 7 mm in diameter, multiradiate. Fruiting racemes long; pedicels 3-5 mm, patent. Sepals 3-4 mm; petals 5-6 mm, deeply emarginateor almost bifid. Silicula 4-5-6 mm, orbicular-elliptical, emarginate, grey-green; valves dimorphic, one strongly convex, with scarcely flattened margin, the other flat or slightly convex, with a wide flattened or deflexed margin; style 2-5-3- 5 mm. Seeds c. 2 mm; wing 0-0- 1 mm wide. Serpentine rocks and stones. • Greece (C. & N. Evvoia ). Gr.