Family: Brassicaceae
Stenopetalum nutans
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:27 (1862).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Stinking thread-petal.
Description:
Annual or biennial herbs, decumbent to erect, to 50 cm tall, sparsely hairy with sessile appressed 2-fid hairs; leaves entire or remotely dentate to pinnatifid, to 9 cm long, reducing above.
Sepals 3-6 mm long; petals 15-40 mm long, with the apex long, slender and often twisted, yellow-green or brown.
Silicula obovoid, 6-10 (rarely to 13) mm long, sometimes slightly compressed; pedicels horizontal to recurved, 7-12 (rarely to 17) mm long; seeds reniform, 1.5-2 mm long, 6-12 per locule.
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Image source: fig 223b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Hewson (1982) Fl. Aust. 8:fig. 55F-H; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 336.
Distribution:
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Grows in arid regions.
S.Aust.: NW, LE, EP. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly July — Sept.
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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:
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Author:
Not yet available
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