Lepidium aschersonii

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Family Brassicaceae

Taxonomy: Lepidium aschersonii Thell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lepidium ruderale var. aciculiferum Thell. (taxonomic synonym)
Lepidium ruderale var. spinescens Benth. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lepidium dubium Thell. (misapplied)
Lepidium ruderale L. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NSW, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), ANBG_2019 (4), Barrett_2009 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lunt_2012 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), NSWFRD_2014 (5), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 98 records in 18 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4 mm (3.5-4.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.58 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): silique (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (120-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (3); subulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed (2); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); unlobed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.4 mg (0.29-0.52 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lunt_2012]
seed_length (numerical): 1.76 mm (1.5-1.88 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.98 mm (0.98-0.98 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.27 m (0.04-0.3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	14	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2023	11	13	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	10	10	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	5	5	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ANBG_2019	4	4	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Barrett_2009	3	3	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Lunt_2012	1	1	I. Lunt and J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from various Morgan and Lunt projects 1990-2012, Charles Sturt & La Trobe University”. 2012.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.