Lepidium cordatum Willd. ex Dc.

Species

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Characteristics

Herbs perennial, 15-40 cm tall, glabrous except for pilose sepals and pedicels, glaucous. Stems erect, branched basally and above. Basal leaf blade obovate, pinnatifid, withered by fruiting. Cauline leaves sessile; leaf blade oblong or lanceolate, 0.3-1.8(-3) cm × 2-7(-13) mm, subleathery, base sagittate or auriculate, margin serrulate or entire, apex acute or obtuse. Fruiting pedicels slender, straight, 2-4 mm, pilose in flower, glabrous in fruit. Sepals caducous, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 0.8-1.2 × 0.8-1 mm, sparsely pilose with crisped trichomes, broadly white at margin and apex. Petals white, obovate, 1.5-1.8 × 0.8-1 mm, base clawed, apex rounded. Stamens 6; filaments 0.7-1.5 mm, often conspicuously dilated at base; anthers oblong, 0.2-0.4 mm. Fruit suborbicular or broadly ovate-cordate, 2-2.5(-2.8) × 1.8-2.3 mm, wingless, base sometimes subcordate; apical notch absent or rarely ca. 0.05 mm; style 0.1-0.3 mm; stigma discoid, distinctly broader than style. Seeds reddish brown, oblong, 0.9-1.1 × 0.5-0.6 mm, papillate; cotyledons incumbent. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jun-Jul.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.16 - 0.42
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Distribution

Lepidium cordatum world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286112-1
WFO ID wfo-0001217782
COL ID 6P8Z4
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Synonyms

Nasturtium cordatum Lepidium cordatum