Narrow Thread-petal: Buds & Brown Flower

Narrow Thread-petal (Stenopetalum lineare)

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Other Small Plants

Order:

Mustards & Allies (Brassicales)

Family:

Mustard (Brassicaceae or Cruciferae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Narrow Thread-petal (Stenopetalum lineare)

This Photo:

🔍Buds & Brown Flower🔎

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
A very difficult plant to spot. Has 4 chocolate brown to dull yellow petals. The flowers are tiny, with the petals only 1mm or so long.
We only found single stemmed, short (up to 200mm) plants. They can branch out and be up to 500mm high.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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