Family: Brassicaceae
Lepidium africanum
Citation:
DC., Reg. Veg. Syst. Nat. 2:522 (1821 ).
Synonymy: Thlaspi africanus Burman f., Fl. Ind. 17 (1768); L. ruderale auct. non L.; L. hyssopifolium sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 382 (1948), partly, non. Desr. (1815).
Common name: Common peppercress, rubble peppercress.
Description:
Annual, biennial or perennial herb, erect, branched, to 40 cm tall; leaves broad- to narrow-lanceolate, acute, serrate to entire, sparsely ciliate, the base attenuate.
Silicula ovate to obovate, 2-3 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, wings slight in the upper half with a shallow notch; pedicels shorter than the silicula, puberulent on the adaxial surface, flattened, arcuate; seeds ellipsoid, c. 1.25 mm long.
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Image source: fig 215a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.C.T., fig. 177 as L. hyssopifolium.
Distribution:
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Common weed of disturbed places.
S.Aust.: NU, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Native to South Africa.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: mainly April — Sept.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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