Lepidium basuticum Marais

Perennial herb with a long taproot. Stems prostrate or erect, up to 30 cm high, densely, ± retrorsely set with flattened, ± sickle-shaped hairs. Basal leaves in a rosette, petiolate, up to 12 cm long, pinnate, 8-10-jugate, the pinnae variously lobed or dentate; both surfaces of petiole and lower surface of the rhachis and midrib set with short flattened hairs. Stem leaves pinnately lobed with fewer, narrower, less lobulate lobes, upwards smaller, the uppermost oblanceolate, 3-fid or entire. Racemes terminal, in fruit 1-5 cm long, dense; rhachis puberulous. Pedicels puberulous all round, wide-spreading, in fruit 1.5-3.5 mm long. Sepals 0.8-0.9 mm long, oblong, membranous-margined, sub-persistent. Petals 0. Stamens 2; filaments subulate. Nectaries 0.4-0.5 mm long, filiform. Siliculae 2.8-3 x 1.7-1.9 mm, elliptical, shallowly emarginate with the style shorter than or as long as the sinus. Seeds 1-1.4 x 0.5-0.6 mm, brown.