Family: Brassicaceae
Lepidium
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 643 (1753).
Derivation: Greek lepis, a scale; referring to the appearance of the fruits.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs or shrubs, glabrous or with simple hairs.
Inflorescence ebracteate; sepals erect to spreading, equal; petals various to absent; stamens 6, 4 or 2; median nectariferous glands present.
Fruit a silicula, dehiscent, flattened at right angles to the septum, usually notched; valves keeled, usually winged; seeds 1 per 1ocule, pendulous, mucous, cotyledons simple or divided or folded; radicle incumbent, rarely accumbent.
Distribution:
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150 species, cosmopolitan, 35 endemic and 8 established species in Australia. (A. Thellung (1906) Neue Denkschr. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 41, 1:1-340; H. J. Hewson (1982) Brunonia 4:217-308). Illustrations of Lepidium are used with permission of CSIRO. Peppercresses.
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Biology:
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