Lepidium leptopetalum

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Family Brassicaceae

Taxonomy: Lepidium leptopetalum (F.Muell.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Monoploca leptopetala F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Monoploca leptopetala F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Nasturtium leptopetalum (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Draper_2023 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), McGlone_2015 (6), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (12), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 112 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.

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): silique (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (50-50 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); strap-shaped (2); terete (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_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): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
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): 3.87 mg (3.86-3.88 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 11.82 mm (2-23 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.67 m (0.6-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_1998]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	13	17	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	16	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	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	12	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/.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
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/.
SAH_2022	3	3	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/.
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/.
WAH_1998	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.