Family: Brassicaceae
Lepidium latifolium
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 644 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Dittander, perennial peppercress.
Description:
Perennial herbs, stoloniferous, erect, 50-130 cm tall, glabrous; basal leaves ovate and simple to pinnately-lobed, serrate, to 30 cm long; cauline leaves reducing to bract-like, often sparsely pubescent.
Sepals 1-1.5 mm long; petals 2-3 mm long, clawed, white; stamens 6.
Silicula broad-ovate, mostly c. 2.5 mm long and c. 2 mm wide, not winged or notched; pedicels spreading, terete, weak, 4-5 mm long; seeds ellipsoid, 1-1.3 mm long.
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Image source: fig 215g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Weed of disturbed soil near settlement.
S.Aust.: SL. Qld; Tas. Native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Nov. — March.
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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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