Family: Brassicaceae
Lepidium pseudotasmanicum
Citation:
Thell., Neue Denkschr. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 41, 1:307 (1906).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Tasmanian peppercress.
Description:
Annual or biennial herbs, erect, 20-60 cm tall, almost glabrous; leaves pinnatifid with narrow linear lobes; cauline leaves pinnate-linear to entire-linear, marginal hairs short and acute or papillose.
Sepals 0.5-1 mm long; petals small or absent; stamens 2, median.
Silicula elliptic, 2.5-3 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, slightly winged in the upper half, shallowly notched; pedicels spreading, 4-6 mm long, hairy on the adaxial surface; seeds 1.25-1.5 mm long.
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Image source: fig 217c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EA, NL, MU. W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: probably all months.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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