Flax-leaf Alyssum
Fruit
Ellura
Flax-leaf Alyssum
Seed in Pod
 
                      
Flax-leaf Alyssum (Alyssum linifolium)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Mustards & Allies (Brassicales)
Family: Mustard (Brassicaceae or Cruciferae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Flax-leaf Alyssum (Alyssum linifolium)
This Photo:     Fruit Stem
Synonyms: Alyssum linifolia or Meniocus linifolius

Thank you Renate and Glenys for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
A very strange plant with brown, circular, flat, disk fruits.
These discs dry to a paper thin shell, then drop the two seeds contained within.
Also has strange tufted short hairs growing from it's leaves & stem.

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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)