Lepidium desvauxii

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Family Brassicaceae

Taxonomy: Lepidium desvauxii Thell.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lepidium desvauxii Thell. var. desvauxii (nomenclatural synonym)
Lepidium desvauxii var. typicum Thell. (taxonomic synonym)
Lepidium halmaturinum J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
Lepidium hyssopifolium f. intercedens Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Lepidium hyssopifolium var. desvauxii (Thell.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Lepidium praetervisum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Lepidium ruderale var. robustum Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), Barrett_2009 (3), Draper_2023 (2), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (6), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (12), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 102 records in 17 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 (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.42 mm (1.75-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): silique (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_shape (categorical): obtriangular (1); spathulate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2); auriculate (2); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_dentate (2); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); spreading (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_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 (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): ballistic (1); epizoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.36 mg (0.28-0.44 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.4-0.4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	13	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.
SAH_2023	12	14	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
RBGV_2023	10	12	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Jordan_2001	6	6	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Kew_2019_6	1	6	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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/.
Draper_2023	2	2	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.