Citation: Lam., Encycl. 2:567 (1788).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Small-flower fumitory.

Description:
Herb with branches rarely more than 2 mm thick, much-branched, with petioles of cauline leaves short or absent towards the apex of the plant.

Racemes on a very short peduncle up to 7 mm long but usually absent, with 9-20 flowers densely clustered; bracts 2-3 mm long, longer than the flowering and fruiting pedicels; sepals c. 1 X 0.5 mm, more or less toothed or dissected, white; petals (incl. spur) 5-6 mm long, white or tinged pink with deep purplish-black at the apex of the two lateral petals.

Fruit on short erect pedicels, c. 2 mm diam., almost spherical but sometimes with an acute apex, keeled, irregularly granulate.

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1948) Drawings Brit. Pl. 2:pl. 22.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to Europe and the Mediterranean. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: June — Dec.

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

Biology: No text

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