Flowers and fruiting bodies. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, about 40km S of Tibooburra, NSW

Flowers and young fruiting bodies. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, about 40km S of Tibooburra, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, about 40km S of Tibooburra, NSW

Common Name

Priddiwalkatji

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 35cm tall or prostrate. Basal leaves to 6cm long, hairy, lobed, the lobes linear or toothed or with secondary lobes. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, to 4cm long, flat, hairy, with narrow lobes. Flowers white, yellow, rarely mauve, with 4 petals, in many flowered racemes at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 316

eFloraSA description with line drawing:  http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Arabidella_eremigena