Polygala stenopetala

Description

Perennial herb (sometimes annual ?) or shrublet up to 1.5 m.tall with slender,erect,slightly winged,glabrous stems.Leaves 15–50 x 1–5 mm.,linear,grasslike,pointed at the apex,glabrous.Flowers blue or greenish with purple-brown veining,pedicels 3–4 mm.long,in elongated,terminal racemes up to 20 cm.long with glabrous rhachis and small caducous bracts 1 mm.long and bracteoles 0.8 mm.long.Posterior sepal 2 mm.long;wing sepals 5–6.5 x 4–5.5 mm.,obliquely suborbicular or rotund;anterior sepals 1.8 mm.long,connate.Upper petals 3 x 2.5 mm.,obliquely and irregularly obovate;carina 6.5 x 3.5 mm.,crest 2 mm.long.Stamens 8.Capsule 5–6 x 3.5–4.5 mm.,obliquely oblong,glabrous.Seeds 2.5 x 1.5 mm.,ellipsoid,with rather short,brownish,appressed hairs;caruncular appendages absent.