Lepidium englerianum
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| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Full name: | Lepidium englerianum (Muschl.) Al-Shehbaz |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Peperbossie, Peperbos |
| English common name(s): | Pepper bush |
| Synonym(s): | Coronopus integrifolius (DC.) Spreng. (1825) Coronopus englerianus Muschl. (1908) =Senebiera integrifolia DC. (1799) =Coronopus integrifolius (DC.) Spreng. (1825) =Senebiera linoides DC. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Prostrate, decumbent or erect herb, up to 300 mm tall. Stems puberulous. All or at least upper leaves entire. Fruit of ± 2 globose halves. Flowers white. Prostrate, decumbent or erect perennial herbs up to 30 cm high. Stems and branches puberulous with hyaline, sometimes clavate, hairs. Basal leaves crowded in a rosette, frequently dying off before flowering, pectinately 7-15-lobed, the lobes semi-lunate, entire or shallowly toothed, puberulous on the upper surface; gradually smaller and less lobed to dentate. Stem leaves 0.5-7.5 cm long, 1-5 mm broad, lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire, acute, cuneate, with a few hairs on the margin in the lower half. Racemes many-flowered, at first dense and contracted, in fruit up to 10 cm long (under poor conditions much reduced and barely 1 cm long); rhachis puberulous. Sepals 0.7-0.8 mm long, greenish white or tinged with purple. Petals scarcely longer than the sepals, white. Stamens 2; filaments subulate. Siliculae on erect pedicels 1-3 mm long, of two almost globose halves, each (0.5-)0.8-1 mm in diameter, keeled, warted or pitted (rarely almost smooth or papillate); style exserted from the sinus or not. Perennial herb, 0.1-0.5 m high, prostrate, decumbent or erect. Stems and branches puberulous with hyaline or clavate hairs. Leaves: basal leaves in a rosette, pectinately 7-15-lobed, lobes semi-lunate, puberulous on upper surface, margins entire or shallowly toothed; cauline leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire, with few hairs in lower half. Inflorescence a many-flowered raceme; rachis puberulous. Sepals greenish white or tinged with purple. Petals white. Stamens 2; filaments subulate. Fruit a siliqua, on erect pedicels, keeled, warted or pitted. Perennial herb, up to 0.5 m high. Stems procumbent, decumbent or erect; puberulous. Leaves petiolate, basally crowded in a rosette; blade of basal ones pectinately 7-15-lobed, lobes semilunate, all or at least upper leaves with margins entire, upper leaves narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 5-75 mm x 1-5 mm, shortly petiolate. Flowers: in dense racemes; petals scarcely longer than sepals, ± 0.8 mm long, white; Sep.-Mar. Fruit with pedicels erect; siliquae of ± 2 globose halves, 0.8-1.0 mm in diameter, warted or pitted. Prostrate or erect perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall, stems bearing ± club-shaped hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette, pinnatisect, 7-15-lobed, lobes semi-lunate, upper leaves entire, 50-75 x 1-5 mm. Flowers small, white. Fruit shaped in 2 ± globose halves, each 0.8-1 mm diam., warted or pitted. (from https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001264872;jsessionid=343170D3901585AF9308D33287C919B0) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
