Class
Order
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
- Lepidium aegrum
- Lepidium africanum
- Lepidium amissum
- Lepidium banksii
- Lepidium bonariense
- Lepidium campestre
- Lepidium castellanum
- Lepidium coronopus
- Lepidium crassum
- Lepidium densiflorum
- Lepidium desvauxii
- Lepidium didymum
- Lepidium divaricatum
- Lepidium draba
- Lepidium flexicaule
- Lepidium heterophyllum
- Lepidium hyssopifolium
- Lepidium juvencum
- Lepidium kirkii
- Lepidium limenophylax
- Lepidium naufragorum
- Lepidium oblitum
- Lepidium obtusatum
- Lepidium oleraceum
- Lepidium oligodontum
- Lepidium panniforme
- Lepidium peregrinum
- Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium
- Lepidium pseudotasmanicum
- Lepidium rekohuense
- Lepidium ruderale
- Lepidium sativum
- Lepidium seditiosum
- Lepidium sisymbrioides
- Lepidium solandri
- Lepidium tenuicaule
- Lepidium virginicum
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lepidium L., Sp. Pl. 643 (1753)
Synonymy:
- = Coronopus Zinn (1757)
Vernacular Name(s):
pepper grass; Peppercress; Pepperwort; Tongue grass
Description
Annual, biennial or perennial taprooted herbs, sometimes subshrubby with stout woody rootstock, rarely shrubs. Hairs simple or papillate or 0. Stems prostrate to erect, leafy. Lvs simple, toothed or 1–2-pinnatifid, or pinnate. Racemes ebracteate. Sepals erect to patent, not saccate. Petals white, rarely yellow or reddish, or often 0. Stamens (0)–2–6, without appendages. Nectaries variable, 6 or 4, tuberculate or filiform. Style long, short or 0; stigma capitate. Silicle ovate, elliptic, obovate, circular or rhomboid, angustiseptate, dehiscent; valves keeled and usually winged, the wings forming a notch at apex and sometimes fused to the base of the style. Seeds ovoid, winged or not, 1 per locule.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic): Extinct | 2 |
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 17 |
| Indigenous (Non-endemic) | 1 |
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 15 |
| Exotic: Casual | 2 |
| Total | 37 |
Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Houliston, G.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Mitchell, A.D. 2013: New Lepidium (Brassicaceae) from New Zealand. PhytoKeys 24: 1–147.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
