Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Lepidium obtusatum Kirk

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Threat status: Extinct
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Lepidium obtusatum Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 24: 423 (1892)
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Endemic
Extinct
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Kirk
Kirk
1892
423
ICN
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
species
Lepidium obtusatum
Although the exact meaning of the species “obtusatum” was not given by Kirk (1891) it seems that he took the name from the shape of the hypogynous glands (i.e. the nectaries) which he specifically noted (Kirk 1899) are “very short and obtuse”.
Holotype: New Zealand: Port Nicholson, n.d., Miss Kirk, WELT SP030109! Notes: Kirk’s protologue for L. obtusatum states “Hab. North Island: Maritime rocks at the entrance to Port Nicholson, Miss Kirk” (Kirk 1892). Only one herbarium sheet annotated 'Lepidium obtusatum n.s., Port Nicholson, Miss Kirk' and so matching the protologue as to name, collector (Miss [Lily] Kirk), type locality, and labelled in the naming authors hand could be located in the WELT (the main herbarium where Kirk material has come to be lodged) so this sheet is regarded here as the holotype.

Click to collapse Classification Info

obtusatum

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Lepidium obtusatum Kirk

Glab. herb with branched, leafy, prostrate to suberect stems up to 3 dm. long. Lower lvs on broad flat petioles up to 5 cm. long; lamina up to 5 cm. long, oblong-cuneate, coarsely crenate-serrate; upper lvs subsessile, about ovate. Racemes ∞; fls c. 3 mm. diam.; pedicels slender, c. 5 mm. long; sepals broadly ovate-oblong, ± 1·5 mm. long; petals slightly longer; stamens 4, glands 4, oblong, very short. Silicles broadly ovate, 4-5 mm. long, slightly winged above, notch broad, shallow; style stout, about = notch. Seed compressed-ovoid, ± 2.5 mm. long, yellowish brown.

Lepidium obtusatum Kirk

Glabrous perennial. Stems decumbent to ascending, stout, flexuous, 20-30 cm tall. Lvs all similar, obovate-spathulate, crenate to bluntly dentate. Rosette lvs 3-7 × 0.5-2 cm, cuneately narrowed to broad, flat petiole > lamina. Stem lvs toothed at apex, (0.5)-1-2-(5) × (0.3)-0.5-1.5 cm; petiole < lamina or 0. Racemes terminal on short leafy branchlets, (2)-3-5 cm long; pedicels erecto-patent, 3-5 mm long at fruiting. Sepals c. 1.5 × 0.8 mm. Petals white, obovate, < or = sepals. Stamens 4 or 6. Silicle broadly ovate, shallowly notched at apex, slightly winged, 4.5-5.5 × 4-4.5 mm; style very short; stigma = notch. Seeds broadly ovoid to triangular, brown, not winged, c. 2 x 2 mm.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
Lepidium obtusatum Kirk

Click to collapse Collections Info

Lepidium obtusatum Kirk
[Not available]

Click to collapse Notes Info

typification
Holotype: New Zealand: Port Nicholson, n.d., Miss Kirk, WELT SP030109! Notes: Kirk’s protologue for L. obtusatum states “Hab. North Island: Maritime rocks at the entrance to Port Nicholson, Miss Kirk” (Kirk 1892). Only one herbarium sheet annotated 'Lepidium obtusatum n.s., Port Nicholson, Miss Kirk' and so matching the protologue as to name, collector (Miss [Lily] Kirk), type locality, and labelled in the naming authors hand could be located in the WELT (the main herbarium where Kirk material has come to be lodged) so this sheet is regarded here as the holotype.
Etymology
Although the exact meaning of the species “obtusatum” was not given by Kirk (1891) it seems that he took the name from the shape of the hypogynous glands (i.e. the nectaries) which he specifically noted (Kirk 1899) are “very short and obtuse”.

Click to collapse Metadata Info

5f608e13-e0bc-42a3-a39c-4e1d8c5937fc
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 June 2013
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top