Lepidium cartilagineum, (J. Mayer) Thell.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 332

18. L. cartilagineum (J. Mayer) Thell. , Viert. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 51: 173 (1906).

Perennial; stems 7-25 cm, very flexuous, branched above, papillose. Leaves leathery-succulent, broadly elliptical, ovate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, more or less obtuse, entire, cuneate at base; the cauline sometimes with a sagittate base. Sepals c. 1-25 mm, petals about twice as long as sepals. Pedicels c. 4 mm, thick in fruit. Silicula 2-5-3 x 2-5-3 mm, ovate, when ripe distinctly reticulate-alveolate; style short, exserted. Saline areas o f C. & E. Europe. Au?Bu?Cz Ge Hu Po Rm Rs (C, W, K, E).