Overview
Comprehensive Description
Description
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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Flora of Zimbabwe
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Distribution
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Forzza, R. C. & et al. 2010. 2010 Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil. http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/100002289
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Molina Rosito, A. 1975. Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras. Ceiba 19(1): 1–118.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/866
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Ecology
Associations
Associations
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
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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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Barcode
Locations of barcode samples
Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Lepidium 
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Statistics of barcoding coverage
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
| Specimen Records: | 36 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 123 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 66 |
| Public Records: | 9 |
| Species: | 8 |
| Species With Barcodes: | 8 |
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Barcode data
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Wikipedia
Lepidium
Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard family Brassicaceae. It includes about 175 species found worldwide, including cress and pepperweed; additional common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds.[1]
Species
- Lepidium africanum
- Lepidium amelum
- Lepidium armoracia Fisch. & C.A. Mey. 1843
- Lepidium apetalum Willd. - du xing cai [2]
- Lepidium arbuscula
- Lepidium barnebyanum
- Lepidium biplicatum
- Lepidium bonariense - Peppercress
- Lepidium campestre - Field Pepperwort or 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
- Lepidium hypenantion
- Lepidium hyssopifolium
- Lepidium heterophyllum - Smith's Pepperwort
- Lepidium jaredii - Jared's Pepperweed
- Lepidium latifolium - Pepperweed or Dittander
- Lepidium latipes
- Lepidium lyratogynum
- Lepidium merrallii
- Lepidium meyenii - Maca
- Lepidium monoplocoides - Winged Peppercress
- Lepidium montanum - Western Pepperweed, Mountain Pepperweed
- 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- Peruvian maca
- 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 or Thurber's Pepperweed
- Lepidium virginicum - Virginian Peppercress
- Lepidium xylodes
References
- ^ Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917). The Mysteries of the Flowers. Frederick A. Stokes company. p. 238. page 210
- ^ Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 20 Dec 2011
- 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. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=LEPIDIUM. Retrieved 2009-02-30.
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