Common name: Indian Hedge Mustard
Sisymbrium orientale L. APNI* 
Description: Annual or biennial weed 25–90 cm high, erect, pubescent with hairs short, soft, reflexed.
Basal leaves to c. 11 cm long, pinnatifid with 4 pairs of triangular lobes, petiolate, not persistent; upper leaves entire or sagittate with the terminal lobe oblong or lanceolate, petiolate.
Inflorescence without bracts. Sepals 4–5 mm long, bristly. Petals 6–10 mm long, yellow to pale yellow. Style plus clavate stigma 1–3.5 mm long. Siliqua linear, spreading, 4–10 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, thick-walled; pedicel spreading, 3–10 mm long.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread weed of disturbed soils. Native of W Asia, Medit.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *NFWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A. *N.T.
Text by L. Retter & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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