Lepidium sativumForssk. [family CRUCIFERAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Coronopus didymus(L.) Smith [family CRUCIFERAE ] Verified by Bengt Jonsell, 1993
Related name
Cochlearia humifusa
Coronopus didymus
Senebiera pinnatifida
Thlaspi foetidum
Lepidium sativum
Flora
Entry for Coronopus didymus [family BRASSICACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Procumbent or erect herbs up to 30 cm high. Stems pilose, glabrescent. Basal leaves up to 9 cm long, pinnatipartite, the segments usually pinnatifid, sometimes only the upper margin of the segments lobed. Upper leaves pinnatifid, smaller. Racemes short and dense in flower, 2-3 cm long in fruit; rhachis pilose. Sepals 0-8-0-9 mm long, greenish white. Petals less than 0-5 mm long, white. Stamens 2 or rarely 4; filaments swollen at the base. Siliculae on spreading or recurved-spreading pedicels 1 • 5-2 • 5 mm long, 1-4-1-5 mm long, 2-2-6 mm broad, each half reniform-semi-circular, longer than wide, compressed, roundÂed on the back, reticulately netted and pitted; style always much shorter than the sinus. Fig. 1 : 7.
Use
1. Coronopus didymus (L.)Sm., Fl. Brit. 2 : 691 (1800); Muschl. in Bot. Jahrb. 41 : 134 (1908); Burtt Davy, Fl. Tvaal. 1 : 129 (1926); F.Z. 1 : 193 (1960). Origin of type not known.
Range
A naturalised weed, probably a native of South America.
