Family: Brassicaceae
Stenopetalum lineare
Citation:
R. Br. ex DC., Reg. Veg. Syst. Nat. 2:513 (1821).
Synonymy: S. lineare R. Br. ex DC. var. canescerts Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:78 (1863).
, Stenopetalum croceum, Stenopetalum trisectum Common name: Narrow thread-petal.
Description:
Annual herbs, erect, to 50 cm tall, hairy with irregularly branched to stellate hairs; leaves pinnatifid with narrow-obovate to linear lobes which are dentate to entire, to 10 cm long, reducing to filiform, entire above.
Sepals 3-6 mm long, dimorphic; petals 6-13 mm long, with the tip not markedly drawn out, chocolate-brown to olive-green.
Silicula linear-terete to obovoid, 3.5-7.5 mm long, 2-4 mm wide; pedicels erect to spreading, to 5 mm long; seeds ovoid to oblong, 0.8-1.5 mm long, mostly 8-14 per locule.
Published illustration:
Hooker (1844) Hook. Ic. 7:t. 618; Curtis (1975) Student's Flora of Tasmania edn 2:fig. 12; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 335.
Distribution:
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Grows in drier parts of all regions.
S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE. W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas.
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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:
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