Farsetia stylosa - Prostrate Farsetia

Prostrate Farsetia is an undershrub, annual or perennial, erect or spreading, 10-50 cm tall, often woody at base, densely hoary with bipartite appressed white hairs. Leaves are narrowly linear, entire, stalkless, 10-40 x 1-3 mm, bristly. Flowers are borne in 5-20-flowered, lax, ebracteate racemes. Flowers are white or pale pink, 2.5-4 mm across; flower-stalks 1-3 mm long, up to 6 mm long in fruit. Sepals are oblong, nearly blunt at tip, 3.5-4 x 1 mm, bristly. Petals are oblong, wedge-shaped, rounded at tip, 5-6 mm long. Stamens are 3-4 mm long; anthers blunt at tip, about 1 mm long. Style is thin, about 1.5-2 mm long; stigma bilobed. Fruit is linear-oblong, compressed, nearly rounded at both ends, 10-47 x 2-4.5 mm, covered with bipartite appressed hairs; valves often slightly torulose; seeds uniseriate, round, about 3 mm in diameter. Prostrate Farsetia is found throughout the Indian desert to the western banks of Yamuna in the east, and also in Pakistan. The plant is used as deer and camel fodder. Flowering: February-November.