| Family | BRASSICACEAE |
| Genus species | Christolea crassifolia Cambess. |
| Bibliography | Voy. Inde [V.Jacquemont] 4: 17 (1841) |
| Native Range | Afghanistan to w. China and c. Nepal |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 2500-5500m |
| Description | stem leaves variable, petiolate, coriaceous, pubescent, dentate or entire, flowers 5-7mm across, 10-25, in raceme, pedicellate, silicles broadly linear to oblong-ovoid |
| Size | 15-40cm |
| Color | white, rose |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Christolea afghanica (Rech.f.) Rech.f. Christolea crassifolia var. pamirica (Korsh.) Korsh. Christolea incisa O.E.Schulz Christolea pamirica Korsh. Ermania crassifolia (Cambess.) Ovcz. & Junussov Ermania pamirica (Korsh.) Ovcz. & Junussov Koelzia afghanica Rech.f. Parrya ramosissima Franch. |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (TZK Tadzhikistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) 36 China (CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (NEP Nepal, PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |