syn: Malcolmia africana (L.) R. Br.; Hesperis africana L.
Common names: Turkish mustard
Suberect annual herb covered with branched hairs; basal leaves soon withered, cauline leaves elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, 2-6 cm long, entire or dentate, petiolate, uppermost smaller and subsessile; flowers pink or purple, rarely white on barely up to 3 mm long pedicels thickened in fruit, forming an elonated raceme with straight or zigzag axis; petals 6-10 mm long; siliqua linear, 4-angled, covered with branched trichomes.
Locally common in Kashmir in dry wastelands, weed of cultivation. Photographed from Srinagar, Kashmir.
