Family: Brassicaceae
Menkea lutea
Citation:
E. Shaw, Contr. Gray Herb. 200:181 (1970).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Erect or prostrate herbs; stems glabrous, slender, flexuose, to 40 cm long; basal leaves spathulate to obovate, usually pinnatisect with 2-4 pairs of lobes.
Sepals 1.7-2.3 mm long; petals 1.8-2.8 mm long, bright-yellow.
Silicula obovoid or ellipsoid, 4-6.8 mm long, 1.9-2.7 mm wide, flattened; septum reduced to a rim; pedicels erect or spreading, 5-9 mm long; seeds oblong to ellipsoid, 0.7-0.9 mm long.
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Image source: fig 218g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Very localised in the Blackstone and Tomkinson Ranges.
S.Aust.: NW. NW; W.Aust.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: June — Aug.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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