Lemphoria Schulz (1924: 267)

Lysak, Martin A., Edginton, Mark, Zuo, Sheng, Guo, Xinyi, Mandáková, Terezie & Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A., 2022, Transfer of two Arabidella and two Cuphonotus species to the genus Lemphoria (Brassicaceae) and a description of the new species L. queenslandica, Phytotaxa 549 (2), pp. 235-240 : 237

Lemphoria Schulz (1924: 267) .

Type: L. procumbens (Tate) O.E.Schulz.

Cuphonotus Schulz (1933: 92) , syn. nov. Lectotype (designated by Shaw 1974: 154): C. humistratus (F.Muell.) O.E.Schulz.

Herbs, annual. Trichomes absent or simple and slender, crisped or straight. Multicellular glands absent. Stems herbaceous, erect to ascending or decumbent, several from base, branched throughout, leafy, unarmed. Basal leaves rosulate or not, entire, pinnatifid to pinnatisect, subfleshy or not; cauline leaves more or less similar to basal leaves, short petiolate to subsessile, not auriculate at base, uppermost leaves entire. Racemes many flowered, ebracteate, corymbose, elongated considerably in fruit, rarely reduced to solitary flowers on pedicels originating from basal rosette; rachis straight; fruiting pedicels suberect to ascending or divaricate, persistent. Sepals ovate to oblong or elliptic, free, deciduous, spreading to reflexed, equal, base of lateral pair not saccate; petals white or yellow, spreading, subequaling to longer than sepals; blade oblanceolate to linear or obovate to suborbicular, apex obtuse; claw obscurely to strongly differentiated from blade, shorter than sepals, glabrous, unappendaged, entire; stamens 6, slightly exserted, erect to spreading, slightly tetradynamous; filaments wingless, unappendaged, glabrous, free, distinctly dilated at base; anthers ovate, obtuse at apex; nectar glands lateral, at both sides of lateral stamens, median glands absent; ovules 6−70 per ovary; placentation parietal. Fruit dehiscent, capsular, linear to oblong siliques or elliptic to suborbicular silicles, subterete or angustiseptate, not inflated, unsegmented; valves papery, prominently to obscurely veined, glabrous, not keeled, smooth, wingless, unappendaged; gynophore absent or obsolete; replum rounded, visible; septum complete, membranous, veinless or with an obscure midvein; style obsolete or 0.1−1 mm long, persistent; stigma capitate, entire or slightly 2-lobed, unappendaged. Seeds uniseriate or biseriate, wingless or margined, oblong to ellipsoid, plump or slightly flattened; seed coat minutely reticulate to nearly smooth, copiously mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent.

Distribution: Endemic to Australia.