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Lepidium

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Description

Lepidium L. 1753, Sp. Pl. 2: 643; id. 1754, Gen.

Pl., ed. 5: 291.

Plants are annual, biennial or rarely perennial. Leaves are entire to pinnatisect divided. Raceme elongated in fruit. Species of Lepidium have a different number of stamens. Cruciferae typically has 6 stamens but in Lepidium there are also 2 and 4 stamens in flower. Sepals erect with a white margin. Petals are white or yellow, longer than sepals, equal in length or absent. The fruit is silicula and shape varies from orbicular to ovate. Seed ovoid, 1 per locule.

Notes

Published as part of Rūrāne, Ieva & Roze, Ieva, 2019, Genus Lepidium L. In The Flora Of Latvia, pp. 191-198 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 19 (2) on page 193, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10979943

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Lepidium
Taxon rank
genus