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Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton

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Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton, New Zealand J. Bot. 33: 43-47 (1995)
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton

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New Zealand
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Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
1995
43-47
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Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
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Lepidium naufragorum
The epithet 'naufragorum', the genitive plural form of 'naufragus' meaning a 'castaway or ship wrecked person', was given by Garnock-Jones and Norton (1995) to commemorate a sealing gang that was set down on the type locality of the species, the Open Bay Islands, in 1810 where they were left for four years until they were rescued.
Holotype: New Zealand: Open Bay Islands, Taumaka, 15 February 1992, P.J. Garnock-Jones 2121, D.A. Norton & D.R. Given, CHR 470212!

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naufragorum

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Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton

n = c. 72 bivalents

Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton

Perennial herb. Stems ascending to erect, 15-30(-45) cm long, glabrous. Leaves glabrous, fleshy, bright grass-green. Basal and lower stem leaves withering at fruiting, pinnatifid, narrow-oblong to narrow-oblanceolate, 6-12 × 1.5-2.5 cm; pinnae in 3-7 pairs, sharply toothed at apex and distal margins. Middle stem leaves similar, or becoming shallowly pinnatifid, sharply serrate. Upper stem leaves narrow-obovate to linear-oblanceolate, pinnatifid to simple, sharply toothed at apex and at apex of pinnae if present, cuneate at base, 10-30(-50) × 2-6(-10) mm. Racemes 30-70(-100) mm long, terminal and axillary; rachis glabrous or sparsely hairy; pedicels sparsely hairy, erecto-patent, 3-5 mm long at fruiting. Flowers c. 3 mm diameter. Sepals glabrous or sparsely hairy, often some glabrous and some hairy within one flower, green with scarious margins, c. 1 × 1 mm. Petals white, slightly longer than sepals, spreading, clawed; limb obovate, emarginate. Stamens 4, equal. Nectaries 4, subulate, c. 0.25 mm long; nectar copious. Siliques* broadly elliptic, 2.8- 4.0 × 2.3-3.2 mm; style 0.1-0.2 mm long, free from the narrow wing, equal or exceeding the shallow notch; stigma 0.4 mm diam.; valves glabrous. Seed obovoid, orange-brown, not winged, 1.7-2 mm long, mucilaginous when wet. FL Oct-Mar, FR Nov-Apr. *We use the term silique in preference to silicle since the distinction between the two terms is artificial.
A Lepidio oleraceo foliis pinnatifidis, siliquis emarginatis; a L. flexicauli caulibus glabris, ascendentibus vel suberectis, dentibus foliorum acutis, margine laminae glabro, petalis unguiculatis, limbo petali patenti, emarginato, staminibus quattuor differt.

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Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton

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Lepidium naufragorum Garn.-Jones & D.A.Norton
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typification
Holotype: New Zealand: Open Bay Islands, Taumaka, 15 February 1992, P.J. Garnock-Jones 2121, D.A. Norton & D.R. Given, CHR 470212!
Etymology
The epithet 'naufragorum', the genitive plural form of 'naufragus' meaning a 'castaway or ship wrecked person', was given by Garnock-Jones and Norton (1995) to commemorate a sealing gang that was set down on the type locality of the species, the Open Bay Islands, in 1810 where they were left for four years until they were rescued.

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