Ricotia L.

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 : 295

45. Ricotia L. 1

Annual or perennial herbs; glabrous or with hairs unbranched. Leaves simple, entire to pinnatisect. Sepals erect, the inner saccate at base; petals pink or pale violet, clawed. Fruit a siliqua or latiseptate silicula; style short; stigma capitate. Literature: B. L. Burtt, Kew Bull. 1951: 123-32 (1951). Petals 10-12 mm, pink; fruit 5-8 times as long as wide, not winged

1. eretica Petals c. 5 mm, violet or with violet veins; fruit about twice as long as wide, with a narrow marginal wing 2. isatoides