Lepidium schlechteri Thell.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb with erect annual shoots up to 20 cm high. Stems minutely scabropuberulous, glabrescent. Basal leaves in a rosette, 4-6 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm broad, obovate or oblanceolate, entire or lyrate-pinnatifid with short, ovate, outwardly curved lobes, petiolate, the base of the petioles expanded, lower surface and margin of petiole puberulous; lower surface of blade or only the nerves, and margin of blade puberulous; upper surface glabrous. Stem leaves few, sessile, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, entire, margin puberulous. Racemes terminal, fairly lax in fruit; rhachis subglabrous or minutely puberulous. Pedicels subglabrous or puberulous; in fruit ascending or arcuate, 3-5-6 mm long. Sepals 1.3-1.5 mm long, ovate-oblong or obovate, membranous-margined, glabrous. Petals 1-1.2 mm long, linear-spathulate, white. Stamens 6; filaments subulate. Nectaries small, inconspicuous. Siliculae 4 x 2.2-2.5 mm, ± rhomboid, narrowed towards both ends, not emarginate; style prominent, 0.2-0.4 mm long.
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Perennial herb, up to 0.2 m high. Stems annual, erect; minutely scabrous-puberulous. Leaves petiolate and sessile; rosulate; basal ones petiolate; blade obovate to narrowly obovate, 40-60 x 8-15 mm, margins entire or lyrate-pinnatifid with short, ovate, outwardly curved lobes, upper surface glabrous, lower surface and margins puberulous; stem leaves few, sessile; blade linear-oblong or narrowly obovate, margins entire, puberulous. Flowers: in terminal, lax racemes; stamens 6; petals linear-spathulate, 1.0-1.2 mm long, white; Oct., Nov. Fruit with pedicels ascending or arcuate; siliculae rhomboid, narrowed towards both ends, 4 x 2.2-2.5 mm, not emarginate; style short, projecting.
Life form
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Distribution

Lepidium schlechteri world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286400-1
WFO ID wfo-0001217110
COL ID 6PBC2
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Lepidium schlechteri