Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lepidium pseudotasmanicum
Common name
A peppercress
Family
Brassicaceae
Where found
Grassy woodland, grassland, bare ground, and rocky places. Coast, Sydney area. Ranges and tablelands south of the Hume Highway. ACT. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or biennial herb to 0.6 m high. Stems hairless or with scattered hairs. Basal leaves to 9 cm long, deeply dissected, with linear lobes, margins fringed. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, similar, becoming smaller, eventually linear and entire. Flowers tiny, with 4 petals, reduced or absent, and 4 sepals 0.5-1 mm long. Flowers in an unbranched cluster which elongates in seed. Flowering mostly spring-summer. Seed cases elliptical, 2.5-3 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, with narrow wings in the upper half forming a slight narrow notch (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Stalks of seed cases 2.5–6 mm long, somewhat flattened, spreading, hairy with fine hairs above.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lepidium~pseudotasmanicum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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