Neotorularia torulosa (Desf.) Hedge & J.Léonard / Homotypic Synonyms: Torularia torulosa (Desf.) O.E.Schulz, it is an annual herb, up to 30 cm long, spreading or ascending, branched mostly from the base, usually clothed with short bifid and slightly longer simple hairs, sub scabrous to almost glabrous. Basal leaves rosulate, linear-oblong or narrowly elliptic, shortly stalked to sessile, pinnatifid to dentate, 10-20 x 4-5 mm. Cauline leaves smaller but ± similar. Racemes usually ebracteate, up to 15 cm long in fruits. Flowers 2-3 mm across usually white. Pedicels up to 1(-1.5) mm long in fruit and nearly as thick, ± spreading. Sepals c. 2 mm long. Petals 2.5-3 (-4) x 1-1.5 mm. Stamens c. 1.5-2.5 mm; anthers c. 0.5 mm. Siliquae linear-sub cylindrical, straight to reflexed or somewhat coiled above, ± torulose, 15-30 (40) x 1 (-1.5) mm, usually hispid or scabrid; stigma sub sessile or sessile, capitate, obscurely retuse, septum sub membranous. Seeds 15-30 in each locule, uniseriate, c. 1 mm long, ovoid.
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