Botanical name: Solms-laubachia linearis    Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard family)
Synonyms: Christolea linearis, Desideria linearis, Ermania kashmiriana

Narrowleaf Christolea is a plant 4-15 cm tall, densely hairy throughout. Stems are simple, hairy or hairless. Lower leaves are narrowly spoon-shaped, 1-1.5 cm long, 3-5 mm broad, entire or slightly 1-3-toothed above, tip rounded; stem leaves short, inverted-lanceshaped to linear. Flowers are borne in 10-15-flowered bracted raceme. Flowers are about 5 mm across, white to lilac, often violet tinged at base; flower-stalks up to 8 mm long in fruit. Petals are 5-8 mm long. Sepals are about 3 mm long. Stamens are about 3: 3.5 mm long. Young seedpods are about 1 cm long, 1 mm broad, linear, hairy. Narrowleaf Christolea is found in the Himalayas northwards to Central Asia, at altitudes of 3200-6200 m. Flowering: June-August.

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