Fibigia Medicus

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 : 304-305

51. Fibigia Medicus 1

Perennial herbs; hairs stellate, rarely mixed with some unbranched hairs. Sepals erect, the inner saccate or not saccate at base; petals yellow, shortly clawed. Fruit a strongly compressed latiseptate silicula; valves flat, not veined; style long; stigma more or less capitate. Seeds 2-8 in each loculus, winged.

1 Plant usually more than 30 cm, without numerous vegetative shoots at base; sepals 4-5-7 mm; petals 8-13 mm; fruiting racemes usually more than 10 cm 1. clypeata

1 Plant usually less than 30 cm, with numerous vegetative shoots at base; sepals 7-10 mm; petals 12-19 mm; fruiting racemes up to c. 8 cm

2 Leaves with ash-white, lanate indumentum; silicula at least 9 mm wide, not more than twice as long as wide 2. lunarioides

2 Leaves with silver-grey, very closely appressed indumentum; silicula not more than 8 mm wide, usually at least twice as long as wide 3. triquetra