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Lepidium paysonii

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Isotype of Lepidium paysonii Rollins [family BRASSICACEAE]
Paratype of Lepidium paysonii Rollins [family BRASSICACEAE]
Paratype of Lepidium paysonii Rollins [family BRASSICACEAE]
Isotype of Lepidium paysonii Rollins [family BRASSICACEAE]
Holotype of Lepidium paysonii Rollins [family BRASSICACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Lepidium paysonii Rollins [family BRASSICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Rollins, 1993
Related name
  • Lepidium ramosissimum
  • Lepidium paysonii

Flora

Entry for Lepidium paysonii Rollins [family CRUCIFERAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 7,
Names
Lepidium paysonii Rollins [family CRUCIFERAE], Cruciferae Continental N. Amer., 577. 1993
Treatment Author(s)
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
John F. Gaskin
Information
Perennials; (caudex woody, to 6 mm diam.); densely puberulent. Stems several from base (caudex), erect or ascending to decumbent, branched distally, 0.5–2.3 dm. Basal leaves not rosulate; petiole 1–2.5 cm; blade oblanceolate (rarely with 1 or 2 lateral lobes), 1–3.5 cm × 3–7 mm, margins serrate-dentate. Cauline leaves shortly petiolate or sessile; blade narrowly oblanceolate to linear, 0.7–3.5 cm × 1–4 mm, base attenuate, not auriculate, margins entire or distally serrulate. Racemes elongated in fruit; rachis puberulent, trichomes curved, cylindrical. Fruiting pedicels divaricate to horizontal, slightly recurved, (terete), 2–4(–5.5) × 0.15–0.2 mm, densely puberulent throughout. Flowers: sepals oblong, 0.6–0.9 × 0.3–0.4 mm; petals (absent or rudimentary), white, oblanceolate, 0.3–0.6 × 0.1–0.2 mm, claw absent; stamens 2, median; filaments 0.6–0.7 mm; anthers 0.1–0.2 mm. Fruits elliptic, 2.4–2.8 × 1.6–2 mm, apically winged, apical notch 0.2–0.3 mm deep; valves thin, smooth, not veined, puberulent (at least along margin); style obsolete or to 0.1 mm, included in apical notch. Seeds oblong, 1.3–1.4 × 0.7–0.8 mm.
Phenology
jun-jul (summer)
Distribution
USA Colo.USA IdahoUSA Wyo.
Discussion
Lepidium paysonii is known in Idaho from Bear Lake County, and in Wyoming from Park and Sublette counties.
Placing Lepidium paysonii in the synonymy of L. densiflorum var. pubicarpum, N. H. Holmgren (2005b) depended on the presence in both taxa of minute papillae at the fruit valve margin. However, L. paysonii is a perennial with elliptic fruits widest at the middle, curved rachis trichomes, and fruiting pedicels puberulent throughout. By contrast, L. densiflorum is a biennial or annual with obovate fruits widest beyond the middle, straight rachis trichomes, and fruiting pedicels usually puberulent adaxially, rarely glabrate; in our opinion, the two species are not closely related.

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