Prostrate, spreading or erect, to 40 cm high; hairs sessile to stalked, bifid or further branched. Basal leaves petiolate or sessile, obovate, to 9 cm long, with 1–3 pairs of usually triangular teeth or segments; stem leaves reducing. Sepals 1.5–3 mm long; petals 2–4.5 mm long. Fruit erect to spreading, fusiform, usually falcate, 6–12 mm long (excluding style), 2–2.5 mm wide, hairs all more or less similar in length, simple or branched; style usually c. 1 mm long; pedicels erect to spreading, stout, 1–4 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Oct.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, RobP, MuF. Grows in sandy soils of the north-west part of the State.
Var. majorE.A. Shaw, from southern central Australia, has fruits with only branched, appressed hairs.
Source:
Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Brassicaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 399–459. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
