Goldbachia laevigata (M.Bieb.) DC.
Kingdom : Plantae
Phylum :Tracheophyta
Class :Magnoliopsida
Order :Brassicales
Family :Brassicaceae
Genus : Goldbachia
Species: Goldbachia laevigata (M.Bieb.) DC.
Synonyms :
Goldbachia hispida Blatt. & Hallb.
Goldbachia reticulata (Kuntze) Vassilcz.
Raphanus laevigatus M.Bieb.
Annual, 15-50 cm tall, glabrous, rarely very sparsely hispid below and on the margins of leaves. Basal leaves rosulate, 3-10 cm long, 1-2.5 cm broad, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, sinuate- dentate to subentire, sessile; cauline leaves lanceolate to linear-oblong, 1-6 cm long, 5-15 mm broad, sessile, often amplexicaul with auricled bases, dentate to entire. Racemes 15-30-flowered, lax, up to 20 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 3 mm across, white or pale pinkish; pedicels up to 10 mm long in fruit, thin, ± deflexed. Sepals 2 mm long. Petals c. 4 mm long, 1 mm broad. Stamens c. 1.5: 2 mm long. Fruits c. 10 mm long, 3 mm broad, quadrangular, ± constricted between the seeds, often prominently so in the middle, slightly upcurved, apex subcompressed, acute; valves thick, coriaceous, glabrous, with a prominent mid-rib; stigma short, depressed, slightly bilobed, sessile; seeds usually 3, oblong, c. 2 mm long, 1 mm broad, pale brown. Fl. Per.: March-May.
Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South European Russi, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang