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Lepidium
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Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves entire to pinnate. Flowers small, whitish in terminal or axillary, ebracteate racemes. Sepals not saccate. Petals 4, vestigial or 0. Stamens 2, 4 or 6. Ovary 2-ovulate. Fruit a subcircular, ovate or elliptic silicula with keeled and winged valves.
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Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Ceutorhynchus parvulus feeds on Lepidium
Foodplant / parasite
mainly hypophyllous, scattered or not, immersed, black pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph of Septoria lepidii parasitises live leaf of Lepidium
Remarks: season: autumn
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:235
Specimens with Sequences:346
Specimens with Barcodes:179
Species:90
Species With Barcodes:87
Public Records:136
Public Species:76
Public BINs:0
Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.[1] It includes familiar species such as garden cress, maca, and dittander. General common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds.[2]
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Diversity[edit]
There are about 175[3] to 220[1] species in the genus.
Species include:
- Lepidium africanum
- Lepidium amelum
- Lepidium armoracia Fisch. & C.A. Mey. 1843
- Lepidium apetalum Willd. - du xing cai[4]
- Lepidium arbuscula
- Lepidium barnebyanum
- Lepidium biplicatum
- Lepidium bonariense - peppercress
- Lepidium campestre - field pepperwort, field cress
- Lepidium catapycnon
- Lepidium densiflorum - common pepperweed
- Lepidium desvauxii - bushy peppercress
- Lepidium dictyotum
- Lepidium didymum
- Lepidium draba - hoary cress
- Lepidium drummondii
- Lepidium echinatum
- Lepidium ecuadoriense
- Lepidium englerianum
- Lepidium fasciculatum - bundled peppercress
- Lepidium flavum
- Lepidium flexicaule
- Lepidium foliosum - leafy peppercress
- Lepidium fremontii - desert pepperweed
- Lepidium genistoides
- Lepidium ginninderrense
- Lepidium graminifolium
- Lepidium howei-insulae - mustard & cress
- Lepidium hypenantion
- Lepidium hyssopifolium
- Lepidium heterophyllum - Smith's pepperwort
- Lepidium jaredii - Jared's pepperweed
- Lepidium lasiocarpum
- Lepidium latifolium - pepperweed, dittander
- Lepidium latipes
- Lepidium lyratogynum
- Lepidium merrallii
- Lepidium meyenii (syn. L. peruvianum) - maca
- Lepidium monoplocoides - winged peppercress
- Lepidium montanum - western pepperweed, mountain pepperweed
- Lepidium nanum - dwarf pepperweed
- Lepidium nesophilum
- Lepidium nitidum - shining pepperweed
- Lepidium oblongum
- Lepidium oxycarpum - forked pepperweed
- Lepidium oxytrichum
- Lepidium papilliferum - slickspot peppergrass
- Lepidium papillosum - warty peppercress
- Lepidium pedicellosum
- Lepidium peregrinum
- Lepidium perfoliatum
- Lepidium peruvianum
- Lepidium phlebopetalum
- Lepidium pholidogynum
- Lepidium pinnatifidum
- Lepidium platypetalum - slender peppercress
- Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium
- Lepidium pseudoruderale
- Lepidium pseudotasmanicum
- Lepidium puberulum
- Lepidium quitense
- Lepidium rotundum - veined peppercress
- Lepidium ruderale - narrow-leaved pepperwort
- Lepidium oleraceum - Cook's scurvy grass (near extinct)
- Lepidium sagittulatum
- Lepidium scandens
- Lepidium squamatum
- Lepidium strictum
- Lepidium sativum - garden cress
- Lepidium thurberi - Thurber's peppergrass, Thurber's pepperweed
- Lepidium virginicum - Virginian peppercress
- Lepidium xylodes
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Lepidium. Flora of North America.
- ^ Faulkner, H. W. (1917). The Mysteries of the Flowers. Frederick A. Stokes company. p. 238. page 210
- ^ Mummenhoff, K., et al. (2001). Chloroplast DNA phylogeny and biogeography of Lepidium (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 88(11), 2051-63.
- ^ Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 20 Dec 2011
References[edit]
- Everitt, J.H.; Lonard, R.L.; Little, C.R. (2007). Weeds in South Texas and Northern Mexico. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 0-89672-614-2
- "Lepidium". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 2009-02-30. Check date values in:
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