- Family: Brassicaceae Burnett
Lepidium L.
This genus is accepted, and is native to Asia-Tropical, Europe, Africa, Falkland Island, Pacific, Southern America, Northern America, Australasia and Asia-Temperate..
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Cruciferae, Bengt Jonsell (University of Stockholm). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982
- Habit
- Annual or perennial, small to medium-sized herbs or subshrubs with a taproot, often finely pubescent with unicellular simple hairs
- Stem
- Stems erect or ascending, sometimes procumbent, freely branched
- Leaves
- Leaves membranous or coriaceous, simple to pinnatipartite
- Inflorescences
- Racemes terminal or axillary, ebracteate, densely corymbose, with numerous small to minute flowers, in fruit narrowly cylindrical, contracted or elongate but usually rather dense
- Calyx
- Sepals elliptic, not saccate, greenish
- Corolla
- Petals usually whitish, somewhat longer or shorter than the sepals, often even lacking
- Stamens
- Stamens 6, 4 or 2, median and/or lateral ones reduced; filaments usually linear to subulate
- Nectaries
- Nectarial glands usually 6 or 4, adjacent to the bases of the lateral filaments
- Ovary
- Ovary flat, dorsiventrally compressed, elliptic in outline; ovules 2
- Fruits
- Fruit a silicula, dehiscent, strongly compressed, narrowly septate, usually orbicular to elliptic in outline, entire or winged (especially distally), with the short style in an apical notch
- Seeds
- Seeds single in each locule, very finely reticulate, mucilaginous, usually reddish brown, rather flat, elliptic to obovate in outline, sometimes narrowly and unilaterally winged.
According to Flora Zambesiaca
[FZ]Cruciferae, A. W. Exell. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Ovary
- Ovary 2-ovulate.
- Fruits
- Fruit a silicule with keeled or winged valves.
- Seeds
- Seeds usually 1 in each loculus, pendent from the apex.
- Habit
- Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, occasionally somewhat shrubby, glabrous or with simple hairs, usually with a slender tap-root.
- Leaves
- Leaves entire to pinnate.
- Flowers
- Flowers small, whitish, in terminal and axillary, ebracteate racemes.
- Calyx
- Sepals not saccate.
- Corolla
- Petals 4, sometimes vestigial or O. Stamens 2, 4 or 6.
According to Flora Zambesiaca under the synonym Coronopus
[FZ]Cruciferae, A. W. Exell. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Habit
- Annual, biennial or perennial herbs usually ± pilose with simple hairs.
- Leaves
- Leaves pinnatisect or entire.
- Flowers
- Flowers small, whitish, in terminal racemes which appear to be leaf-opposed owing to sympodial growth.
- Calyx
- Sepals ± spreading, not saccate.
- Corolla
- Petals 4 or O. Stamens 6, 5, 4 or 2.
- Ovary
- Ovary with 2 ovules.
- Fruits
- Fruit 2-lobed, dividing vertically into 1-seeded halves.
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa under the synonym Coronopus
[FTEA]Cruciferae, Bengt Jonsell (University of Stockholm). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982
- Habit
- Annual to perennial low herbs with a taproot, glabrous or with fine, often papillose, simple hairs
- Stem
- Stems often several, prostrate, ascending or erect, with numerous branches often overtopping the racemes
- Leaves
- Leaves thin, entire to bipinnate
- Inflorescences
- Racemes numerous, ebracteate, often supra-axillary and leaf-opposed because of sympodial shoot growth, small and densely corymbose with numerous minute flowers; in fruit narrowly cylindrical and rather dense
- Calyx
- Sepals spreading, rather flat, elliptic, greenish with white or reddish margins
- Corolla
- Petals whitish, somewhat longer or shorter than the petals, or lacking
- Stamens
- Stamens 6, 4 or 2, with linear or basally widened filaments
- Nectaries
- Nectarial glands tubercle-shaped to elongate, sometimes lacking
- Ovary
- Ovary flat, dorsiventrally compressed, with 2 ovules and short to rudimentary style
- Fruits
- Fruit a silicula, compressed, ± transversely elliptic in outline, didymous, i.e. divided along the very narrow septum into 2 rounded halves, which are usually spread as 1-seeded nutlets (outside E. Africa sometimes with completely indehiscent siliculae)
- Seeds
- Seeds flattened, orange to reddish brown, elliptic in outline.
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Distribution
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Angola, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Central European Rus, Chad, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Cook Is., Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, Florida, France, Free State, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf States, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Kermadec Is., Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Libya, Line Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Masachusettes, Mauritania, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Tokelau-Manihiki, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Hawaii
Introduced into:
Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Amur, Ascension, Bermuda, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chita, Cocos (Keeling) Is., Desventurados Is., Easter Is., French Guiana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Kamchatka, Kerguelen, Magadan, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Ogasawara-shoto, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Selvagens, St.Helena, Suriname, Taiwan, Tonga, Tristan da Cunha, Western Sahara
Accepted Species
- Lepidium abrotanifolium Turcz.
- Lepidium acutidens Howell
- Lepidium aegrum Heenan & de Lange
- Lepidium affghanum Boiss.
- Lepidium affine Ledeb.
- Lepidium afghanicum (Rech.f. & Köie) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium africanum (Burm.f.) DC.
- Lepidium alashanicum H.L.Yang
- Lepidium alluaudii Maire
- Lepidium altissimum Rech.f.
- Lepidium alyssoides A.Gray
- Lepidium amissum de Lange & Heenan
- Lepidium amplexicaule Willd.
- Lepidium angolense Jonsell
- Lepidium angustifolium Rusby
- Lepidium angustissimum Phil.
- Lepidium apetalum Willd.
- Lepidium appelianum Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium apterum (Lipsky) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium aranense Sennen
- Lepidium argentinum Thell.
- Lepidium armoracium Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Lepidium aschersonii Thell.
- Lepidium aucheri Boiss.
- Lepidium auriculatum Regel & Körn.
- Lepidium austrinum Small
- Lepidium banksii Kirk
- Lepidium barnebyanum Reveal
- Lepidium basuticum Marais
- Lepidium beamanii Rollins
- Lepidium beckii Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium bidentatum Montin
- Lepidium bipinnatifidum Desv.
- Lepidium bipinnatum Thunb.
- Lepidium biplicatum Hewson
- Lepidium boelckeanum Prina
- Lepidium boelckei Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium bonariense L.
- Lepidium botschantsevianum Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium botschantzevii (R.M.Vinogr.) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium brachyotum (Kar. & Kir.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium bupleuroides Rech.f.
- Lepidium burkartii Boelcke
- Lepidium buschianum Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium campestre (L.) R.Br.
- Lepidium capense Thunb.
- Lepidium capitatum Hook.f. & Thomson
- Lepidium cardamine L.
- Lepidium cardiophyllum (Pavlov) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium cartilagineum (J.Mayer) Thell.
- Lepidium castellanum de Lange & Heenan
- Lepidium catapycnon Hewson
- Lepidium chalepense L.
- Lepidium chichicara Desv.
- Lepidium cordatum Willd. ex Steven
- Lepidium coronopifolium Fisch.
- Lepidium coronopus (L.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium costaricense Thell.
- Lepidium crassius (C.L.Hitchc.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium crassum Heenan & de Lange
- Lepidium crenatum (Greene) Rydb.
- Lepidium culminicola Mouterde
- Lepidium cumingianum Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Lepidium cuneiforme C.Y.Wu
- Lepidium curvinervium (Botsch. & Vved.) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium cyclocarpum Thell.
- Lepidium davisii Rollins
- Lepidium densiflorum Schrad.
- Lepidium depressum Thell.
- Lepidium desertorum Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Lepidium desvauxii Thell.
- Lepidium dictyotum A.Gray
- Lepidium didymum L.
- Lepidium draba L.
- Lepidium drummondii Thell.
- Lepidium eastwoodiae Wooton
- Lepidium echinatum Hewson
- Lepidium ecklonii Schrad. ex Regel
- Lepidium ecuadorense Thell.
- Lepidium englerianum (Muschl.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium fasciculatum Thell.
- Lepidium ferganense Korsh.
- Lepidium filicaule C.L.Hitchc.
- Lepidium filisegmentum C.L.Hitchc.
- Lepidium flavum Torr.
- Lepidium flexicaule Kirk
- Lepidium flexuosum Thunb.
- Lepidium foliosum Desv.
- Lepidium fraseri Thell.
- Lepidium fremontii S.Watson
- Lepidium galapagoensis Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium genistoides Hewson
- Lepidium gerloffianum Vatke ex Gilg & Muschl.
- Lepidium ginninderrense Scarlett
- Lepidium glastifolium Desf.
- Lepidium gracile (Chodat & Hassl.) Boelcke
- Lepidium graminifolium L.
- Lepidium grandifructum C.L.Hitchc.
- Lepidium heterophyllum Benth.
- Lepidium hirtum (L.) Sm.
- Lepidium howei-insulae Thell.
- Lepidium huberi S.L.Welsh & Goodrich
- Lepidium hypenantion Hewson
- Lepidium integrifolium Nutt.
- Lepidium inyangense Jonsell
- Lepidium jaredii Brandegee
- Lepidium jarmolenkoi V.M.Vinogr.
- Lepidium johnstonii C.L.Hitchc.
- Lepidium jujuyanum Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium juvencum Heenan & de Lange
- Lepidium karataviense Regel & Schmalh.
- Lepidium karelinianum Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium kawarau Petrie
- Lepidium keniense Jonsell
- Lepidium kirkii Petrie
- Lepidium lacerum C.A.Mey.
- Lepidium laeteviride (P.Royen) Hewson
- Lepidium lasiocarpum Nutt.
- Lepidium latifolium L.
- Lepidium latipes Hook.
- Lepidium lepidioides (Coss. & Durieu) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium leptopetalum F.Muell.
- Lepidium leventii (V.I.Dorof.) D.A.German
- Lepidium limenophylax de Lange, Rance & D.A.Norton
- Lepidium linifolium (Desv.) Steud. ex Benth.
- Lepidium lipskyi (N.Busch) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium litwinowii (Lipsky) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium longifolium (Boiss.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium lyratogynum Hewson
- Lepidium maccowagei Hewson
- Lepidium macrocarpum (Hedge) D.A.German
- Lepidium makateanum Sykes
- Lepidium matau Petrie
- Lepidium merrallii F.Muell.
- Lepidium meyenii Walp.
- Lepidium meyeri Claus
- Lepidium minor (Botsch. & Vved.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium minutiflorum (Ridl.) Hewson
- Lepidium monoplocoides F.Muell.
- Lepidium montanum Nutt.
- Lepidium mossii Thell.
- Lepidium muelleriferdinandii Thell.
- Lepidium mummenhoffianum Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium myrianthum Phil.
- Lepidium myriocarpum Sond.
- Lepidium nanum S.Watson
- Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
- Lepidium navasii (Pau) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium nesophilum Hewson ex P.S.Green
- Lepidium niloticum (Delile) Sieber
- Lepidium nitidum Nutt.
- Lepidium oblitum Houliston, Heenan & de Lange
- Lepidium oblongum Small
- Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
- Lepidium obtusum Basiner
- Lepidium oleraceum G.Forst.
- Lepidium olgae (R.M.Vinogr.) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium oligodontum de Lange & Heenan
- Lepidium orientale (Schrenk) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium ostleri S.L.Welsh & Goodrich
- Lepidium oxycarpum Nutt.
- Lepidium oxytrichum Sprague
- Lepidium paniculatum (Regel & Schmalh.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium panniforme de Lange & Heenan
- Lepidium papilliferum (L.F.Hend.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
- Lepidium papillosum F.Muell.
- Lepidium parodii Thell.
- Lepidium patrinioides (Regel) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium pavlovii Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium paysonii Rollins
- Lepidium pedicellosum F.Muell.
- Lepidium peregrinum Thell.
- Lepidium perfoliatum L.
- Lepidium persicum Boiss.
- Lepidium philippianum (Kuntze) Thell.
- Lepidium phlebopetalum F.Muell.
- Lepidium pholidogynum F.Muell.
- Lepidium pinnatifidum Ledeb.
- Lepidium pinnatisectum (O.E.Schulz) C.L.Hitchc.
- Lepidium pinnatum Thunb.
- Lepidium platypetalum Hewson
- Lepidium pseudodidymum Thell.
- Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium Hewson
- Lepidium pseudopapillosum Thell.
- Lepidium pseudoruderale Thell.
- Lepidium pseudotasmanicum Thell.
- Lepidium pterocarpum (Botsch. & Vved.) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium puberulum Bunge
- Lepidium pubescens Desv.
- Lepidium quitense Turcz.
- Lepidium rahmeri Phil.
- Lepidium ramosissimum A.Nelson
- Lepidium reichei Phil. ex Reiche
- Lepidium rekohuense de Lange & Heenan
- Lepidium rhytidocarpum (Hook.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium rigidum Pomel
- Lepidium robustum (Pavlov) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium rotundum DC.
- Lepidium ruderale L.
- Lepidium sagittatum (Kar. & Kir.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium sagittulatum Thell.
- Lepidium sativum L.
- Lepidium scandens Hewson
- Lepidium schaffneri Thell.
- Lepidium schinzii Thell.
- Lepidium schlechteri Thell.
- Lepidium seditiosum de Lange, Heenan & J.R.Rolfe
- Lepidium serra H.Mann
- Lepidium serratum (Poir.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium seydelii Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium silaifolium (Hook.f. & Thomson) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm.
- Lepidium sisymbrioides Hook.f.
- Lepidium solomonii Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium songaricum Schrenk
- Lepidium sordidum A.Gray
- Lepidium spathulatum Phil.
- Lepidium spicatum Desv.
- Lepidium spinosum Ard.
- Lepidium steinbachii O.E.Schulz
- Lepidium strictum (S.Watson) Rattan ex B.L.Rob.
- Lepidium strongylophyllum F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Lepidium stuckertianum (Thell.) Boelcke
- Lepidium subalpinum Kom.
- Lepidium subcordatum Botsch. & Vved.
- Lepidium subulatum L.
- Lepidium suluense Marais
- Lepidium tandilense Boelcke
- Lepidium tenuicaule Kirk
- Lepidium thurberi Wooton
- Lepidium tianschanicum (Botsch. & Vved.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium tiehmii (Rollins) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium tofaceum Rech.f.
- Lepidium tolmaczovii (Junussov) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium transvaalense Marais
- Lepidium trautvetteri (Botsch.) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium trianae Thell.
- Lepidium trifurcum Sond.
- Lepidium uzbekistanicum Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium vesicarium L.
- Lepidium villarsii Gren. & Godr.
- Lepidium violaceum (Munby) Al-Shehbaz
- Lepidium virginicum L.
- Lepidium xylodes Hewson
- Lepidium zambiense (Jonsell) Al-Shehbaz
Synonyms
- Carara Medik.
- Cardamon Fourr.
- Cardaria Desv.
- Cardiolepis Wallr.
- Coronopus Zinn
- Cotyliscus Desv.
- Cynocardamum Webb & Berthel.
- Dileptium Raf.
- Eudistemon Raf.
- Hymenophysa C.A.Mey.
- Iberis Hill
- Jundzillia Andrz. ex DC.
- Lasioptera Andrz. ex DC.
- Lepia Desv.
- Lepicochlea Rojas
- Lepidiberis Fourr.
- Lepidion St.-Lag.
- Monoploca Bunge
- Nasturtiastrum Gillet & Magne
- Nasturtioides Medik.
- Nasturtiolum Medik.
- Nasturtium Mill.
- Neolepia W.A.Weber
- Semetum Raf.
- Senckenbergia G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Schreb.
- Senebiera DC.
- Sennebiera Willd.
- Sprengeria Greene
- Stroganowia Kar. & Kir.
- Stubendorffia Schrenk ex Fisch.
- Uranodactylus Gilli
- Winklera Regel
Other Data
Lepidium L. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Sp. Pl.: 643 (1753)
Accepted by
- Al-Shehbaz, I.A. (2010). A synopsis of the South American Lepidium (Brassicaceae) Darwiniana 48: 141-167.
- Jalas, J., Suominen, J. & Lampinen, R. (eds.) (1996). Atlas Florae Europaeae. Distribution of vascular plants in Europe 11: 1-310.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 1: 68.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 291 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 2: 643 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Thell., Die Gattung Lepidium (1906)
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 291 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 644 (1753)
Sources
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Neotropikey
Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
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