Menkea
Annual herbs, prostrate or erect, glabrous (in Victoria). Leaves in basal rosette and cauline, entire, lobed or pinnately dissected. Inflorescence a raceme. Sepals spreading, sometimes hooded or saccate; petals clawed, white to pink or mauve (or yellow outside Victoria); stamens 6. Fruit c. 1–2 times as long as broad, dehiscent; style short with depressed-capitate stigma; septum reduced to absent; seeds in 2 rows, numerous.
6 species, endemic to Australia.
Species of Menkea have small, compressed or inflated fruits in which the septum is reduced to a narrow rim or completely absent, and the seeds are in 2 rows and numerous. The outer rim of the fruit, sometimes with a inner membranous flange (the septum), persists in old infructescences. Hornungia has fruits superficially similar to those of Menkea but the septum is fully developed across the narrowest diameter.
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.
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