Corispermum gelidum Iljin

Annual up to 20 cm, glabrescent. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong, up to 3.0 × 0.5(0.7) cm. Inflorescence short. Bracts shorter than leaves, lanceolate, (almost) completely covering the fruit, appressed to the stem. Fruit 2.6–3.5 × 1.7–2.0 mm, 0.40–0.60 mm thick, flat or folded adaxially, with triangular apex terminating in slightly emarginate beak, with stellate hairs and mostly warty (Fig. 36C), sometimes with groups of dark-brown tanniniferous cells. Wing 0.15–0.45 mm, entire to dentate, broadly triangular in cross-section. Sclereids in the medium fruit part composed of 1–2 layers located parallel to the fruit axis.

See Fig. 37.