Family: Brassicaceae
Stenopetalum sphaerocarpum
Citation:
F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:35 (1855).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Wiry (or pea) thread-petal.
Description:
Annual herbs, wiry, straggling, to 30 cm tall, glabrous or sparsely papillose; leaves pinnatifid with 2 or 3 pairs of lobes, to 5. cm long, reducing above.
Sepals c. 2 mm long, strongly dimorphic; petals 3-6 mm long, with a slender apex, olive-green to purple.
Silicula globose or broadly obovate, 3-5.5 mm long; pedicels stout, rigid, horizontal to recurved, 3-7 (rarely to 11) mm long; seeds oblong to ellipsoid, 1.5-2 mm long, 4-10 per locule.
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Image source: fig 221a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 336.
Distribution:
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Grows in semi-arid to arid regions.
S.Aust.: NW, NU, GT, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.
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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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