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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Brassicaceae
Sisymbrium erysimoides

Citation: Desf., Fl. Atlant. 2:84, 158 (1798). Smooth mustard.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herbs, erect, 10-80 cm tall, glabrous or shortly pubescent; leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, sometimes ovate-lanceolate, serrate, rarely entire, reducing above.

Sepals 1-2 mm long; petals 1-2.5 mm long, pale-yellow.

Siliqua 2.5-5 cm long, c. 1 mm wide; pedicels stout, horizontal, 2-5 mm long; seeds ovoid, c. 1 mm long.

image of FSA1_Sisymbrium_ery.jpg Sisymbrium erysimoides
Image source: fig 221c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Hewson (1982) Fl. Aust. 8:fig. 57H; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 333.

Distribution:  Grows in semi-arid regions.

S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to the Mediterranean.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: mainly Sept. — Nov.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

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