Woody-based perennial herb or subshrub ; up to 20-40 cm tall . Stems many , arising from the base , sparsely branched , erect to ascending , sparsely oubescent to glabrous , often becoming leafless . Leaves alternate , 15-25(-40) x 2-4 mm , grey-green , linear to occasionally linear-obovate , apex acute , sometimes with a small mucro , base tapering into a very short petiol , margin entire , pubescent . Inflorescences in elongate terminal racemes ; pedicel 2-3 mm ; bracts and bracteoles deciduous . Flowers purple or pinkish ; sepals persistent , the outer 3 sepals 3-3 . 5 mm , green with white-scarious margin ; inner 2 sepals ± 5 x ± 4 mm , broadly obovate to elliptic , greenish-yellow with dark purple-brown veins , glabrous ; petals deep purple , crest of the keel pink-purple . Fruit capsule , 4-5 x 4-5 mm , oblong-ovoid , compressed , glabrous , narrowly winged on all sides or sometimes wings broader and ± unequal , enclosed by the larger inner sepals . Seeds c . 4 x 1 . 5 mm , ellipsoid , with white long hairs , caruncle
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Ethiopian Milkwort
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