Common Name: Hand Flowers, Finger Flowers, Blue Finger Flowers
Description: Undershrubs.
Leaves alternate, narrow, margins entire or toothed.
Flowers pedicellate, solitary or in terminal racemes or corymbs. Sepals free or cohering at base. Petals spreading from the base, not or scarcely cohering. Stamens free, turned to one side of ovary; filaments broad-based, shorter than anthers; anthers linear-sagittate, opening by 2 apical pores. Ovary shortly stipitate, 2-locular, ovules numerous; style subulate, curved.
Fruit a 2-valved capsule, hard; seeds numerous.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 10 spp., endemic Aust., all mainland States except N.T. All species are found in eucalypt communities, mallee and woodland, on sandy and very well drained soils mainly in temperate, southern Australia.
Text by R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Inflorescence paniculate to third degree branching; petals 8–10 mm long | Cheiranthera telfordii |
| Inflorescence corymbose;petals >16 mm long | 2 |
| 2 | Leaves with persistent apical lobing, stems smooth with persistent trichomes, leaf margins without rigid erect trichomes | Cheiranthera linearis |
| Leaves without apical lobing, stems glabrous, ridged and tuberculate, leaf margins with rigid erect tricohmes
Back to 1 | Cheiranthera borealis |
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