Entry for LEPIDIUM ruderale Linn. [family CRUCIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 55, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
LEPIDIUM ruderaleLinn. [family CRUCIFERAE], DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 540.
LEPIDIUM intermediumRich. [family CRUCIFERAE], Fl. Abyss. i. 21.
Information
A more or less minutely puberulous annual or, in mountainous situations, tufted perennial. Stem branched erect or diffuse. Radical leaves more or less pinnatifid or incised; cauline linear or linear-lanceolate, incised dentate or entire. Racemes ebracteate. Pedicels rather exceeding or equalling the silicule, spreading. Silicules compressed ovate or rotundate-ovate, scarcely emarginate. Style very short. Radicle incumbent.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Dr. Welwitsch!Abyssinia Nile Land Dillon! Petit!