Common Name

Shrubby Peppercress, Slender Peppercress

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Shrub to 80cm tall.  Leaves succulent, clustered, to 5cm long, about 1mm wide, linear to narrow cylindrical, hairless.  Flowers yellow to white, with 4 petals, in short clusters at the tops 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 327

PlantNET description with line drawings of fruiting bodies:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lepidium~leptopetalum

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Joe McAuliffe, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic