2883.000 Lepidium L.

Description of the genus

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves entire to pinnate. Flowers small, whitish in terminal or axillary, ebracteate racemes. Sepals not saccate. Petals 4, vestigial or 0. Stamens 2, 4 or 6. Ovary 2-ovulate. Fruit a subcircular, ovate or elliptic silicula with keeled and winged valves.

Worldwide: c.140 species, cosmopolitan and temperate

Zambia: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
africanum (Burm. f.) DC. subsp. africanum		C
bonariense L.			Description, Image

Other sources of information about Lepidium:

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Flora of Botswana: Lepidium
Flora of Mozambique: Lepidium
Flora of Zimbabwe: Lepidium

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Lepidium
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Lepidium
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Lepidium
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Lepidium
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Lepidium
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lepidium
JSTOR Plant Science: Lepidium
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lepidium
Plants of the World Online: Lepidium
Tropicos: Lepidium
Wikipedia: Lepidium

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Lepidium.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=613, retrieved 19 April 2024

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