2883.000 Lepidium L.

Description of the genus

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves entire to pinnate. Flowers small, whitish in terminal or axillary, ebracteate racemes. Sepals not saccate. Petals 4, vestigial or 0. Stamens 2, 4 or 6. Ovary 2-ovulate. Fruit a subcircular, ovate or elliptic silicula with keeled and winged valves.

Worldwide: c.140 species, cosmopolitan and temperate

Uganda: 0 taxa.

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Flora of Angola: Lepidium
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Flora of Rwanda: cultivated Lepidium
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Lepidium
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