Sisymbrium burchellii Dc.

Perennial herbs 10-30(-70) cm high, generally with annual stems from the perennial crown. Stems densely tomentose, hispid or patently hairy with a mixture of simple and branched hairs; the lower part with more simple hairs, the upper part with mostly branched hairs. Basal leaves rosulate, petiolate, frequently not persisting till flowering time, 5-15 cm long, pinnately angular-dentate or pinnatisect, 4-11-jugate with broad, oblong or ± obovate, angular-dentate lobes, or the lobes ± crispate. Stem leaves similar but gradually smaller with shorter petioles, the upper ones sessile or subsessile, with fewer and narrower lobes; all leaves hairy, densely grey tomentose to sparsely hairy with branched hairs or a mixture of simple and branched hairs. Racemes terminal; dense in flower, lax in fruit; rhachis hairy. Sepals 2-3.5 mm long, the outer slightly cucullate, persistently hairy or glabrous from an early stage. Petals 2.5-5.5 mm long, linear-oblong or oblong with a broad, membranous claw. Ovary linear, glabrous or hairy; stigma subsessile, 2-lobed; ovules 60-100. Fruiting pedicels 2-12 mm long, short, stout and horizontally spreading, or long, slender, ascending. Siliquae 2-4.5 cm long, 0.8-1.4 mm in diameter, linear, terete; valves 3-nerved, glabrous or scabrid; stigma 2-lobed, subsessile, or the style up to 2 mm long. Seeds 0.7-0.9 x 0.4-0.5 mm, oblong, brown, in 2 rows.