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White-flower Christolea
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White-flower Christolea
P Native Unknown Photo: Prashant Awale
Common name: White-flower Christolea
Botanical name: Solms-laubachia albiflora    Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard family)
Synonyms: Cheiranthus albiflorus, Christolea albiflora, Erysimum albiflorum

White-flower Christolea is a small, hoary, minutely woolly, clustered perennial herb. Stems are slender, covered below by withered leaf-stalks. Lower leaves are loosely clustered; upper linear-lanceshaped, entire, rarely toothed. Flowers are borne in short, close racemes. Sepals are linear, woolly; border narrow, hairless, membranous. Petals are spoon-shaped, blunt or slightly retuse, white. Very young pods are linear, densely woolly, many-seeded; style short,hairless. White-flower Christolea is found in West Himalaya to West Tibet.

Identification credit: Tabish Photographed near Pangong Lake, Ladakh.

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