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Family: Brassicaceae
Euclidium syriacum

Citation: R. Br. in W.T. Aiton, Hort. Kew. edn 2, 4:74 (1812).

Synonymy: Anastatica syriaca L., Sp. Pl. edn 2:895 (1763).

Common name: None

Description:
Herb, erect, branching, 15-70 cm tall, hairy; hairs simple and 2-fid; stems angular; lower leaves opposite, oblong-obovate to ovate, pinnatifid to dentate or entire; upper leaves alternate, oblanceolate, entire; all leaves petiolate.

Sepals c. 1 mm long, erect to spreading; petals c. 1 mm long, emarginate, white.

Silicula oblique-ovoid or globular, c. 3 mm long, .2-2.5 mm wide; style 1-2 mm long, persistent as a beak curving away from the stem; pedicels erect to appressed, thick, 1-2 mm long; seeds broad-elliptic, 1-2 mm long.

image of FSA1_Euclidium_syr.jpg Euclidium syriacum
Image source: fig 213g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Hegi (1960) Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa 4, 1:fig. 89.

Distribution:  Rare, doubtfully established.

S.Aust.: YP.   Native to Europe and Asia.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: not known.


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