Polygala rhinanthoides
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Description
Annual, erect to ascending, little-branched herb up to 70 cm high.
Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 15-55 by 2-10 mm, subsessile, mucro-nate, with recurved margin, more or less hairy, 1-nerved or with very weak secondary nerves.
Flowers 5-7 mm long, bright green or bluish, turning pinkish to purple with green alae.
Ovary ± quadrangular, notched at both ends, ciliate;
Capsule about as long as the alae, somewhat larger than broad to somewhat broader than long, c. 5 by 5-6 mm, deeply emargi-nate, broadly winged, the wings 1-2 mm wide and thinly veined and with patent ciliate hairs, fruit further glabrous.
Seeds ellipsoid, at micropylar side with an unequally 3-lobed aril, black, hairy.