Citation: Boreau in Duchartre, Rev. Bot. 2:359 (1847).

Synonymy: Fumaria officinalis

Common name: Bastards fumitory.

Description:
Herb with often robust branches 3-4 mm thick, little-branched mainly from the base.

Racemes shorter than the peduncle, with 14-25 flowers densely clustered; bracts 2.5-3 mm long, about two-thirds of the length of the flowering pedicels; sepals 2-3 x 1-2 mm, usually shallowly serrate, pink; petals (incl. spur) 9-12 mm long, pale-pink to darker above and deep-purple at the apex of the 2 lateral petals.

Fruit on erect pedicels, c. 2.5 mm diam., almost spherical, with a rounded apex, slightly keeled, irregularly granulate.

	Fumaria bastardii
Image source: fig 205b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1948) Drawings Brit. Pl. 2:pl. 16.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe and the Mediterranean. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: June — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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