Lepidium
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Lepidium is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.[1] It includes familiar species such as garden cress, maca, and dittander. General common names include peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort. Some species form tumbleweeds.[2]
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Diversity
There are about 175[3] to 220[1] species in the genus.
Species include:
- Lepidium africanum
- Lepidium amelum
- Lepidium armoracia Fisch. & C.A. Mey. 1843
- Lepidium apetalum Willd. - du xing cai[4]
- Lepidium arbuscula
- Lepidium banksii
- Lepidium barnebyanum
- Lepidium biplicatum
- Lepidium bonariense - peppercress
- Lepidium campestre - field pepperwort, field cress
- Lepidium catapycnon
- Lepidium densiflorum - common pepperweed
- Lepidium desvauxii - bushy peppercress
- Lepidium dictyotum
- Lepidium didymum
- Lepidium draba - hoary cress
- Lepidium drummondii
- Lepidium echinatum
- Lepidium ecuadoriense
- Lepidium englerianum
- Lepidium fasciculatum - bundled peppercress
- Lepidium flavum
- Lepidium flexicaule
- Lepidium foliosum - leafy peppercress
- Lepidium fremontii - desert pepperweed
- Lepidium genistoides
- Lepidium ginninderrense
- Lepidium graminifolium
- Lepidium howei-insulae - mustard & cress
- Lepidium hypenantion
File:Lepidium lasiocarpum var lasiocarpum 7.jpg
Lepidium lasiocarpum var. lasiocarpum
- Lepidium hyssopifolium
- Lepidium heterophyllum - Smith's pepperwort
- Lepidium jaredii - Jared's pepperweed
- Lepidium lasiocarpum
- Lepidium latifolium - pepperweed, dittander
- Lepidium latipes
- Lepidium lyratogynum
- Lepidium merrallii
- Lepidium meyenii (syn. L. peruvianum) - maca
- Lepidium monoplocoides - winged peppercress
- Lepidium montanum - western pepperweed, mountain pepperweed
- Lepidium nanum - dwarf pepperweed
- Lepidium nesophilum
- Lepidium nitidum - shining pepperweed
- Lepidium oblongum
- Lepidium oxycarpum - forked pepperweed
- Lepidium oxytrichum
- Lepidium papilliferum - slickspot peppergrass
- Lepidium papillosum - warty peppercress
- Lepidium pedicellosum
- Lepidium peregrinum
- Lepidium perfoliatum
- Lepidium peruvianum
- Lepidium phlebopetalum
- Lepidium pholidogynum
- Lepidium pinnatifidum
- Lepidium platypetalum - slender peppercress
- Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium
- Lepidium pseudoruderale
- Lepidium pseudotasmanicum
- Lepidium puberulum
- Lepidium quitense
- Lepidium rotundum - veined peppercress
- Lepidium ruderale - narrow-leaved pepperwort
- Lepidium oleraceum - Cook's scurvy grass (near extinct)
- Lepidium sagittulatum
- Lepidium scandens
- Lepidium squamatum
- Lepidium strictum
- Lepidium sativum - garden cress
- Lepidium thurberi - Thurber's peppergrass, Thurber's pepperweed
- Lepidium virginicum - Virginian peppercress
- Lepidium xylodes
Notes
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External links
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- Species Profile: Hairy Whitetop (Lepidium appelianum). National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lepidium. Flora of North America.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. page 210
- ↑ Mummenhoff, K., et al. (2001). Chloroplast DNA phylogeny and biogeography of Lepidium (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 88(11), 2051-63.
- ↑ Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 20 Dec 2011
