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Family: Brassicaceae
Hymenolobus procumbens

Citation: Nutt. ex Schinz & Thell, Vjschr. Naturf. Gesch. Zürich 66:285 (1921).

Synonymy: Lepidium procurebens L., Sp. Pl. 643 (1753); Hutchinsia procumbens (L.)Desv., J. Bot. Agric. 3:168 ( 1815); Capsella procumbens (L.) Fries, Novit. Fl. Sec. Mant. 1:14(1832); C. elliptica Meyer in Ledeb., Fl. Altaica 3:199 (1830), nom. illegit.; C. procurebens (L.)Fries var. integrifolia (DC.)Rupr., Bull. Phys. Math. Acact Petersb. 14:234 (1856); Hutchinsia procumbens (L.)Desv. var. integrifolia DC., Prod. 1:178 (1824); Stenopetalum incisifolium Hook. f., Hook. Ic. 3:t. 276 (1840); Capsella australasica F. Muell. ex Hannaford, Jottings in Australia 36 (1856), nom. illegit.

Common name: Oval purse.

Description:
Herb, procumbent to erect, 4-30 cm tall, slender, glabrous; basal leaves 1-2 cm long, pinnatifid or pinnatipartite, petiolate; upper leaves reducing, linear, entire.

Sepals 0.7-1 mm long; petals to 1 mm long, white; stamens 4 or 6.

silicula ovate-oblong, 3-6 mm long, 1.7-2.3 mm wide; valves convex-keeled, membranous, net-veined, with mid-vein prominent; pedicels 2-13 mm long, spreading, illiform; seeds ovoid, 0.75 mm long.

image of FSA1_Hymenolobus_pro.jpg Hymenolobus procumbens
Image source: fig 214e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Hewson (1982) Fl. Aust. 8:fig. 54L-N.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.


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