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Lepidium didymum L.

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Lepidium didymum L., Mant. Pl. 92 (1767)
Lepidium didymum L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1767
92
ICN
Lepidium didymum L.
species
Lepidium didymum

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didymum

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Foetid annual or biennial with short-lived rosette and procumbent to ascending glabrous or sparsely hairy stems to 40 cm long. Lvs 1-2-pinnatifid, narrow-oblong to ovate, glabrous except for sparse spreading hairs on petioles of some basal lvs; rosette lvs petiolate, 6-10 ×1.5-2 cm; stem lvs smaller, usually pinnatifid, rarely 2-pinnatifid, 1-4 × 0.5-1.5 cm. Racemes (1)-3-5 cm; rachis with sparse spreading hairs; pedicels spreading, 2.5-4 mm long. Sepals c. 0.5 mm long. Petals white, < sepals or 0. Stamens usually 2, rarely 4. Silicle broader than long, emarginate, c. 1.5 × 2-2.5 mm; valves finely warty or ridged, separating at maturity; stigma minute, almost sessile in apical notch of silicle. Seed comma-shaped, light brown, c. 1 mm long.

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Lepidium didymum L.
Chile
Lepidium didymum L.
Cook Islands
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Lepidium didymum L.
Norfolk Island
Lepidium didymum L.
Tonga
Lepidium didymum L.
United Kingdom

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2aebc983-6525-4cda-b3d9-658726db86c5
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Names_Plants
2 June 2006
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