Lepidium solandri Kirk

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Name scientific

Lepidium solandri Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 14: 380 (1882)

Preferred name

Lepidium solandri Kirk

Taxonomy reference

Heenan, P.B.; Mitchell, A.D.; Mclenachan, P.A.; Lockhart, P.J.; de Lange, P.J. 2007: Natural variation and conservation of Lepidium sisymbrioides Hook.f. and L. solandri Kirk (Brassicaceae) in South Island, New Zealand, based on morphological and DNA sequence data. New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 237–264.

Linked name

Lepidium solandri Kirk 1882

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Kirk

Original authors

Kirk

Publication place

Kirk, T. 1882: A revision of the New Zealand Lepidia, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 14: 379–382.

Year published

1882

Publication page

380

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lepidium solandri Kirk

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lepidium solandri

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Brassicales

Family

Cruciferae

Genus

Lepidium

Species

solandri

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Lepidium matau Petrie

Description

Small erect ± scabrid-hoary dioec. branched herb up to 10 cm. tall; stock stout, branched; taproot deeply descending. Basal lvs us. many, coriac., 2-4 cm. long, narrow-oblong in outline, on short petioles, pinnate to pinnatisect to pinnatifid; pinnae or lobes rounded-cuneate, ± pilose, entire or sts ± incised especially on anterior margin. Cauline lvs few, sessile, oblong, entire or nearly so. Fls minute, apetalous; sepals ± hairy; ♂ rather crowded in racemes up to 5 cm. long; pedicels slender, hairy; stamens 4. ♀ lax in shorter racemes. Pods elliptic-ovate in outline; style just > notch. Seeds ovoid, yellowish.