Rorippa gigantea (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones APNI* 
Description: Decumbent to erect annual to 120 cm high.
Leaves sessile, oblong to lanceolate, to 12 cm long; all or at least lower leaves not lobed; margins entire or ± toothed with widely spaced teeth; stem leaves reducing, sagittate.
Sepals 0.5–2 mm long, dimorphic, inner pair saccate. Petals 2–5 mm long, white. Stamens 6. Siliqua straight, 15–40 mm long, horizontal; pedicel horizontal, 3–8 mm long; seeds in 2 rows per loculus, not mucilaginous when wet, testa reticulate or tuberculate.
Distribution and occurrence: usually in forest.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas.
Text by L. Retter & G.J. Harden, Flora of New South Wales Vol. 1: 478-480 (1990)
Taxon concept: Australian Plant Census (accessed May 2017)
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