Fumaria indica
(Hausskn.) Pugsley Indian FumitoryProstrate to suberect herb, usually branched freely. Largest ultimate segments of leaves to c. 10 mm long and 1.5 mm wide. Racemes subsessile or shortly pedunculate; bracts subequal to or longer than flowering pedicels; pedicels much thickened in fruit, remaining suberect; sepals triangular to almost linear, dentate to laciniate, 0.5–1.5 mm long, attached virtually at base; corolla 5–6 mm long, pale to rosy pink, inner petals deep reddish-purple at apex. Fruit 2–2.3 mm long, usually slightly broader than long, truncate or slightly retuse at apex, rather straight-sided, squarish near base, tuberculate, with small but distinct apical pits. Flowers Aug.–Oct.
Also naturalised SA, Qld, NSW. Native to central and south-western Asia. Known in Victoria only from a 1955 collection from the pumping station at Red Cliffs near Mildura.
Extremely close to Fumaria parviflora, differing significantly only in the longer, broader leaf-segments, the pink flowers and larger fruits.
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Fumariaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 73–78. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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