Lepidium africanum divaricatum
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Full name: | Lepidium africanum (Burm.f.) DC. subsp. divaricatum (Aiton) Jonsell |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Peperbos |
| English common name(s): | Pepperweed |
| Synonym(s): | Lepidium divaricatum Aiton Lepidium divaricatum Aiton subsp. divaricatum Lepidium linoides Thunb. (1800) p.p. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Annual or perennial herb with erect, branched, glabrous or pubescent stems up to 50 cm. tall. Basal leaves ± pinnatifid; cauline leaves subentire to pinnatipartite or pinnatisect, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers greenish-white, pedicellate, pedicels up to 3 mm. long, in elongated terminal and lateral racemes up to 25 cm long. Sepals c. 0.6 mm. long. Petals minute or absent, 0.4–0.5 mm long. Stamens 2, filaments 1 mm long. Silicule 2.8–3 x 1.5–1.6 mm, flattened-ellipsoid, slightly winged near the apex, clearly emarginate at the apex, style included in the emargination. Seeds 1.4 x 0.6 mm, ellipsoid, brown. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) Perennial herbs somewhat woody at the base, up to 1 m high, much branched. Branches spreading, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Leaves 2.5-5 (-15) cm long, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, petiolate, pinnately 3-11-lobed with short lanceolate lobes, or serrate or shortly 3-fid near the apex; upper leaves with fewer lobes or only toothed; all leaves glabrous or the upper surface of the midrib puberulous and the margin finely ciliolate. Racemes elongate, lax or subdense in fruit; rhachis glabrous or puberulous. Pedicels 2-3.5 mm long in fruit, arcuate-spreading or ascending. Sepals 0.7-1 mm long, oblong, green or tinged with purple, with membranous margins. Petals 0.3-0.9 mm long, narrowly oblong, white. Stamens 2; filaments subulate. Nectaries triangular, small. Siliculae 1.9-2.6 x 1.2-1.5 mm, oblong to oblong-ovate, or 2.3-3.7 x 1.8-2.3 mm, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, emarginate, the style included in the sinus. Seeds 1-1.4 x 0.5-0.8 mm, light brown. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| 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 |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 01 Apr 2012 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/320 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
