AusTraits

Lepidium virginicum

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Family Brassicaceae

Taxonomy: Lepidium virginicum L.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): CoI (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 46 records in 9 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) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (2.5-4.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_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): 90 mm (90-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); biennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.3-0.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231113N. 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/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_202244N. 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_200644A. 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.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Schmidt_199311S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.