Polygala wightiana
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Description
Annual, erect or ascending, little-branched herb up to 40 cm high.
Leaves linear-lanceolate, 7-20 by 1-2 mm, subsessile, acute, mucronate, with slightly recurved margin, glabrous, l-nerved.
Flowers c. 4 mm long, pale yellow to red with green alae.
Sepals lanceolate, mucronate, apically sparsely ciliate, alae asymmetric, 3-nerved.
Ovary elliptic, notched, (sub)glabrous;
Capsule somewhat shorter than the alae, elliptic, strongly notched, c. 3.5 mm long, narrowly winged, (sub)glabrous.
Seeds oblong to cylindrical, at micropylar side unequally shortly 3-lobed, black, hairy.