Family: Brassicaceae
Stenopetalum velutinum
Citation:
F. Muell., Pl. Indig. Col. Vic. 1:49 (1862).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Downy (or velvet) thread-petal.
Description:
Annual herbs, woody, erect, to 65 cm tall, hairy with irregularly branched hairs; leaves lanceolate, to 7 cm long, entire or remotely dentate, reducing above.
Sepals 3.5-5.5 mm long, dimorphic; petals 6-21 mm long, tip long, yellow-green to brown.
Silicula subglobose to oblong or obovoid, 4.5-8 mm long; pedicels erect to slightly spreading, 2-10 mm long; seeds oblong or elliptic, 1-1.5 mm long, 10-20 per locule.
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Image source: fig 223e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Bailey ( 1913) Comparative catalogue of Queensland plants, fig. 17.
Distribution:
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Grows in arid and semi-arid regions.
S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: most of the year.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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