Polygala oreotrephes
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Description
Erect, simple or branched shrub, 30-90 cm high.
Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 5-16 by 1-5 cm, acuminate or cuspidate, base attenuate, glabrous to hairy, charta-ceous, petioled (petiole 0.5-2 cm).
Flowers 5-6 mm long, white and yellow, later crimson and pink, on 1-3 mm long pedicels.
Sepals rounded, usually ciliate, the abaxial one not strongly saccate, the alae elliptic to nearly orbicular.
Ovary ± quadrangular with rounded edges;
Capsule ± didymous, c. 7 by 12 mm, winged, with faintly protruding concentric nerves, coriaceous, purple, glabrous.
Seed elliptic or orbicular, at micro-pylar side with a small appendage, black, glabrous, (nearly) completely covered by the smooth, orange to scarlet aril, the slightly protruding chalaza and the raphe distinctly visible.