Family: Brassicaceae
Lepidium monoplocoides
Citation:
F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:35 (1855).
Synonymy: Nasturtium monoplocoides (F. Muell.)Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2:937 (1891).
Common name: Winged peppercress.
Description:
Annual herbs, erect, 15-20 cm tall, glabrous to scabrous with small tubercules; leaves narrow-linear, 1.5-5 (rarely to 10) cm long, pinnatisect to entire.
Sepals to 1 mm long; petals rudimentary or absent; stamens 4, median.
Silicula broad-ovate to circular, 4.5-5.5 mm long, 4-4.5 mm wide, uniformly winged around the margin, attenuate-acute at the apex forming a deep narrow notch; pedicels spreading, 2-3 mm long, flattened; seeds ellipsoid, c. 2 mm long.
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Image source: fig 216a 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; no specimen in AD.
S.Aust.: MU. N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.
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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:
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Author:
Not yet available
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