Citation: O. Schulz, Bot. Jb. 66:92 (1933).

Synonymy: Capsella humistrata F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 11:25 (1978); Hutchinsia humistrata (F. Muell.) J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 254 (1924).

Common name: Mother of misery.

Description:
Herb, erect to spreading, to 25 cm tall, glabrous; basal leaves shallowly pinnatifid to entire, to 3 cm long; cauline leaves pinnatifid with 2 or 3 lobes per side, to 2 cm long, dentate to entire.

Sepals 1.3-2.5 mm long; petals 2-3 mm long, white to yellow.

Silicula round to broadly elliptic, 2.5-5 mm long, strongly compressed, reticulate-veined; pedicels in fruit spreading to recurved, to 1 mm long; seeds ellipsoidal, 1.5-2.2 mm long.

	Cuphonotus humistratus fruit.
Image source: fig 212f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 322.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, GT.   N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June, Sept.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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