Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Irenepharsus trypherus

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Kangaroo Valley and Berry

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Kangaroo Valley and Berry

Common name

Illawarra Irene

Family

Brassicaceae

Where found

Moist forest, shrubland, rocky areas, gullies, and the Shoalhaven River gorge. Coast and ranges between west of Wollongong to Morton National Park.

Notes

Annual or short-lived perennial herb to 2.5 m high. Hairless. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 4–8 cm long, margins toothed. Flowers white, with 4 petals each 3–4 mm long. Seed cases 0.5–2 cm long, 0.7–1 mm wide, curved, stalks 6–10 mm long. Flowers in elongating clusters at the tops of the stems. Seeds sticky when wet but scarcely mucilaginous.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10437 (accessed 6 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Irenepharsus~trypherus (accessed 6 January, 2021)