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Family: Brassicaceae
Stenopetalum lineare

Citation: R. Br. ex DC., Reg. Veg. Syst. Nat. 2:513 (1821).

Synonymy: S. lineare R. Br. ex DC. var. canescerts Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:78 (1863). , Stenopetalum croceum, Stenopetalum trisectum

Common name: Narrow thread-petal.

Description:
Annual herbs, erect, to 50 cm tall, hairy with irregularly branched to stellate hairs; leaves pinnatifid with narrow-obovate to linear lobes which are dentate to entire, to 10 cm long, reducing to filiform, entire above.

Sepals 3-6 mm long, dimorphic; petals 6-13 mm long, with the tip not markedly drawn out, chocolate-brown to olive-green.

Silicula linear-terete to obovoid, 3.5-7.5 mm long, 2-4 mm wide; pedicels erect to spreading, to 5 mm long; seeds ovoid to oblong, 0.8-1.5 mm long, mostly 8-14 per locule.

Published illustration: Hooker (1844) Hook. Ic. 7:t. 618; Curtis (1975) Student's Flora of Tasmania edn 2:fig. 12; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 335.

Distribution:  Grows in drier parts of all regions.

S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: mainly July — Sept.


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