Family: Brassicaceae
Cuphonotus humistratus
Citation:
O. Schulz, Bot. Jb. 66:92 (1933).
Synonymy: Capsella humistrata F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 11:25 (1978); Hutchinsia humistrata (F. Muell.) J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 254 (1924).
Common name: Mother of misery.
Description:
Herb, erect to spreading, to 25 cm tall, glabrous; basal leaves shallowly pinnatifid to entire, to 3 cm long; cauline leaves pinnatifid with 2 or 3 lobes per side, to 2 cm long, dentate to entire.
Sepals 1.3-2.5 mm long; petals 2-3 mm long, white to yellow.
Silicula round to broadly elliptic, 2.5-5 mm long, strongly compressed, reticulate-veined; pedicels in fruit spreading to recurved, to 1 mm long; seeds ellipsoidal, 1.5-2.2 mm long.
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Image source: fig 212f 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. 322.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: LE, GT. N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: June, 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:
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