Family: Brassicaceae
Lepidium pseudoruderale
Citation:
Thell., Neue Denkschr. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 41, 1:303 (1906).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Annual or ephemeral herbs, decumbent to erect, 15-30 cm tall, hairy with short weak hairs; leaves pinnatisect to sinuately lobed, reducing above; marginal hairs short, resembling cilia.
Sepals 0.6-0.75 mm long; petals small or absent; stamens 2, median.
Silicula elliptic, 2-2.25 mm long, 1.3-1.5 mm wide, with a very slight wing in the upper half, slightly notched; pedicels erect to spreading, 2.5-4 mm long, hairy on the adaxial surface; seeds ellipsoid, c. 1 mm long.
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Image source: fig 217b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Rare species in semi-arid regions.
S.Aust.: LE, NU, FR, MU. W.Aust.
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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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