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Lepidium capense

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Identification
Lepidium capense Thunb. [family CRUCIFERAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
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  • Lepidium decumbens
  • Lepidium sylvaticum
  • Lepidium divaricatum
  • Lepidium ecklonii
  • Lepidium capense
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  • Lepidium desvauxii

Flora

Entry for LEPIDIUM Capense Thunb. [family CRUCIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 19, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
LEPIDIUM Capense Thunb. [family CRUCIFERAE], Prod. 107.;—Thunb. Fl. cap. 491. DC. l. c. p. 552.
LEPIDIUM Eckloni Schrad. [family CRUCIFERAE], E. & Z. No. 41.
LEPIDIUM flexuosum E. & Z. [family CRUCIFERAE], 42. Un. Ib. No. 459.
Information
very thinly pubescent; stem terete, decumbent at base, then erect and branching; radical leaves oblong serrate; lower cauline pinnatifid, middle ones serrated, uppermost entire; pods elliptic-ovate, subemarginate, with a very short style. Stems 6–12 inches long, branches spreading, root-leaves petioled, 2 inches long; lower cauline 2–3 inches, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes ovate or oblong, acute, toothed; the middle one lanceolate, narrowed at base, 1 1/2–2 lines wide, toothed or serrate; the uppermost entire or somewhat toothed. Fruiting racemes 3–4 inches long; pedicels 1 1/2 lines long, spreading. Fl. minute. Young pod ovate, apiculate; the ripe elliptical-ovate, minutely notched; style as long as the points of valves, or a little longer. Var. β. is taller, with broader, mostly obtuse and serrate leaves.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hills and waste places, near Capetown, common. Thunb. Ecklon, &c. Cape L'Agulhas Mundt.; Port Elizabeth, E. & Z. Zondag river, Drege, 7543.; Albany, T. Williamson. β. hills near Adow, Zeyher, Zitzekamma, Krauss. Omsamwubo, Drege. Jun.—Dec. (Herb. Thunb., Meisn. Sond., T.C.D.)

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