Lepidium flexuosum Thunb.

Herb with annual stems from a perennial woody crown which is slightly fibrous with the remains of old leaves. Stems up to 20 cm long, weak, ± decumbent, glabrous or the upper part puberulous with clavate hairs, Basal leaves 5-9 x 0.5-1.3 cm, petiolate, oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, entire or pinnately 3-7-lobed, the lobes ligulate or broadly linear. Stem leaves oblanceolate or ligulate, simple, sessile, rounded; lower leaves glabrous; upper leaves glabrous or thinly puberulous with clavate hairs. Racemes terminal and from the upper axils; sub-corymbose at first; in fruit lax; rhachis glabrous or puberulous. Pedicels arcuate or ascending, glabrous or puberulous, 4-5.5 mm long in fruit. Sepals 1.5-2 mm long, ovate, membranous-margined, green or tinged purple. Petals 2.2-3 mm long, spathulate or narrowly oblong-cuneate, white. Stamens 6; filaments subulate, thickened at the base. Nectaries small, rounded. Siliculae 4.5-5 x 3-3.5 mm, ovate, acute, not emarginate; style projecting 0-5 mm or more.