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Lepidium pinnatum

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Identification
Lepidium pinnatum Thunb. [family CRUCIFERAE/BRASSICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2008 Lepidium capense Thunb. [family CRUCIFERAE/BRASSICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Lepidium pinnatum Thunb. [family CRUCIFERAE/BRASSICACEAE ] Verified by HBG-formal name entry, 2008
Related name
  • Lepidium divaricatum
  • Lepidium ecklonii
  • Lepidium capense
  • Lepidium pinnatum
  • Lepidium hirtellum
  • Lepidium not on sheet

Flora

Entry for LEPIDIUM pinnatum 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 pinnatum Thunb. [family CRUCIFERAE], Prod. 107;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 491.
LEPIDIUM divaricatum Ait. [family CRUCIFERAE], Kew. 1. vol. 2. p. 441.
Thlaspi divaricatum Poir. [family CRUCIFERAE]
Information
tall, glabrous, stem erect, divaricately branched; leaves all pinnatifid, the lobes divaricate, acute, subdentate, the uppermost entire or toothed; pods oval, subemarginate, 1–2 feet high. Leaves mostly fasciculate, 1 1/2–2 inch long, petiole uncial, rachis narrow, lobes 3 at each side, patent, entire or few toothed, 1–2 lines wide; the stem leaves similar, uppermost subentire. Racemes elongating; pedicels 1–1 1/2 lines long. Flowers very minute. Pouches 1 line long, subemarginate, the style as long as the notch.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Fields, near Capetown, Thunberg, W.H.H. Heerelogementsberg, Zeyher. Paarlberg, 1–2000 ft., Drege, 7542, b. (L. capense, E. Mey.!) June. (Herb. Thunb., Sond., T.C.D.

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