Crucihimalaya mollissima

Crucihimalaya mollissima (C.A.Mey.) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price, Novon 9: 299 1999. (Syn: Arabidopsis mollissima (C.A.Mey.) O.E.Schulz; Arabidopsis mollissima (C.A. Mey.) N. Busch; Arabidopsis mollissima var. dentata O.E. Schulz; Arabidopsis mollissima var. glaberrima (Hook.f. & Thomson) Naqshi & Javeid ………..; Hesperis mollissima (C.A. Mey.) Kuntze; Sisymbrium mollissimum C.A. Mey.; Sisymbrium mollissimum f. pamiricum Korsh.; Sisymbrium thomsonii Hook. f.; Stenophragma mollissimum (C.A. Mey.) B. Fedtsch.);

Arabidopsis mollissima from Sonamarg, Kashmir: Arabidopsis mollissima (C. A. Mey.) N. Busch, Fl. Sib. et Or. Extr. 1 : 136. 1913
syn: *Arabis* *rupicola* Kyrl., *Sisymbrium* *mollissimum* C.A. Mey., * Sisymbrium* *thomsonii* Hook. f.

Perennial herb distinct from A. himalaica in mostly unbranched stem and racemes ebracteate; often densely pubescent with simple and branched hairs, rarely almost glabrous; cauline leaves lanceolate or oblong-ovate, sessile, auricled at base, amplexicaul, usually dentate, much smaller than the radical leaves; all leaves densely pubescent or canescent.; racemes 20-40-flowered, ebracteate, rarely 1-4 bracteate below, up to 20 cm long in
fruit; flowers white or pinkish; pedicels usually 10-15 mm long in fruit, spreading, filiform; fruit 20-45 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, usually erect on ± spreading pedicels.

Photographed in June from Sonamarg, Kashmir, growing among rocks and boulders.

As suggested by … for another species, I checked this one. The name has changed to Crucihimalaya mollissima (C.A.Mey.) Al-Shehbaz, O’Kane & R.A.Price, Novon 9: 299, 1999