DRABA NUDA

Family and Genus:- See- CRUCIFERAE

Common Names:-

Homotypic Synonyms:-

Meaning:- Draba (Gr) Acrid, a name used by the Greek physician and botanist

Dioscorides.

Nuda (L) Bare, naked, thornless.

General description:- Tiny, scapose annual with short, mostly 2-4-fid hairs.

Stems:-

1) Single or few, 1-2 cm, pubescent.

Leaves:-

1) Up to 5.5 x 2 mm, spathulate to oblong-spathulate.entire, with branched hairs

especially on the margins.

Flowers:-

1) Petals, c. 2 mm, retuse, pale yellow.

2) Pedicels, very short, somewhat thickened in fruit.

3) Sepals, c. 1·5 mm.

4) Style, short.

Fruit:-

1) Siliculae, compressed, up to 8 x 0.8 mm, pubescent, with 2- or 3-fid hairs.

2) Seeds, 15-20, in 1 row in each loculus.

Key features:-

1) Stem, very short (up to 2 cm), leafless.

Habitat:- Rocky limestone slopes and flats,1600-2000 m.

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Distribution:- The Cretan localities, the only ones in Europe, are widely disjunct

from the main range of the species in SW Asia.

Drabopsis has recently been merged with Draba. D. nuda is a widespread Irano-

Turanian species with a disjunct locality in Lefka Ori, where it was discovered by

Gustavsson (1977) and has been confirmed by later gatherings.¹⁾

Flowering time:- May to early June

Photos by:- Ori Fragman_Sapir & A. N. Other

1) Atlas of the Aegean Flora Book 1 Page 160.