Lepidium englerianum (Muschl.) Al-shehbaz

Species

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Characteristics

Prostrate, decumbent or erect perennial herbs up to 30 cm high. Stems and branches puberulous with hyaline, sometimes clavate, hairs. Basal leaves crowded in a rosette, frequently dying off before flowering, pectinately 7-15-lobed, the lobes semi-lunate, entire or shallowly toothed, puberulous on the upper surface; gradually smaller and less lobed to dentate. Stem leaves 0.5-7.5 cm long, 1-5 mm broad, lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire, acute, cuneate, with a few hairs on the margin in the lower half. Racemes many-flowered, at first dense and contracted, in fruit up to 10 cm long (under poor conditions much reduced and barely 1 cm long); rhachis puberulous. Sepals 0.7-0.8 mm long, greenish white or tinged with purple. Petals scarcely longer than the sepals, white. Stamens 2; filaments subulate. Siliculae on erect pedicels 1-3 mm long, of two almost globose halves, each (0.5-)0.8-1 mm in diameter, keeled, warted or pitted (rarely almost smooth or papillate); style exserted from the sinus or not.
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Perennial herb, prostrate, decumbent or erect and up to 30 cm high, glaucous, hairy, the hairs simple to clavate. Leaves basal and cauline, reducing up stems. Basal leaves 0.5–7.5 cm long, pinnatisect, 7–15-lobed, lobes 1–5 mm wide, deciduous; cauline leaves lanceolate, entire. Inflorescence a dense raceme, leaf-opposed. Sepals equal, 0.5–0.8 mm long. Petals 1–1.5 mm long, white. Stamens 2, median. Stigma subsessile. Silicula 0.8–1 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, emarginate above and below; valves globose, somewhat keeled, warted or reticulate-pitted (rarely almost smooth), corky when old, indehiscent but separating into two 1-or 2-seeded units. Seeds 0.5–0.8 mm long.
Perennial herb, 0.1-0.5 m high, prostrate, decumbent or erect. Stems and branches puberulous with hyaline or clavate hairs. Leaves: basal leaves in a rosette, pectinately 7-15-lobed, lobes semi-lunate, puberulous on upper surface, margins entire or shallowly toothed; cauline leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire, with few hairs in lower half. Inflorescence a many-flowered raceme; rachis puberulous. Sepals greenish white or tinged with purple. Petals white. Stamens 2; filaments subulate. Fruit a siliqua, on erect pedicels, keeled, warted or pitted.
Perennial herb, up to 0.5 m high. Stems procumbent, decumbent or erect; puberulous. Leaves petiolate, basally crowded in a rosette; blade of basal ones pectinately 7-15-lobed, lobes semilunate, all or at least upper leaves with margins entire, upper leaves narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 5-75 mm x 1-5 mm, shortly petiolate. Flowers: in dense racemes; petals scarcely longer than sepals, ± 0.8 mm long, white; Sep.-Mar. Fruit with pedicels erect; siliquae of ± 2 globose halves, 0.8-1.0 mm in diameter, warted or pitted.
Prostrate or erect perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall, stems bearing ± club-shaped hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette, pinnatisect, 7-15-lobed, lobes semi-lunate, upper leaves entire, 50-75 x 1-5 mm. Flowers small, white. Fruit shaped in 2 ± globose halves, each 0.8-1 mm diam., warted or pitted.
Prostrate, decumbent or erect herb, up to 300 mm tall. Stems puberulous. All or at least upper leaves entire. Fruit of ± 2 globose halves. Flowers white.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Environment

On Coral Sea islands grows in herb communities with Lepturus repens in calcaeeous sand (Telford et al. 1993: 171–172).
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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

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Distribution

Lepidium englerianum world distribution map, present in Australia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20005408-1
WFO ID wfo-0001264872
COL ID 6P9ZT
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 789606
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Synonyms

Coronopus englerianus Coronopus fungosus Coronopus linoides Coronopus integrifolius Lepidium englerianum Senebiera linoides Senebiera integrifolia Coronopus wrightii Senebiera mexicana