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L., Brassicaceae |
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Present on Pacific Islands? yes
Primarily a threat at high elevations? no
Risk assessment results: Reject, score: 16 (Go to the risk assessment)
Common name(s): [more details]
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English: narrow-leaved pepperwort, peppercress, peppergrass, roadside peppergrass |
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French: cresson puant, passerage des décombres |
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Spanish: lepidio de hoja estrecha |
Habit: herb
Description: "Annual or biennial, more or less foetid, 20-30 cm, single-stemmed, much branched above, glabrous or sparsely covered with short spreading hairs. Basal leaves 2-3 x pinnate, long-petiolate, forming a loose rosette or withering early. Caulline leaves pinnate with narrow entire segments; upper segments narrow, oblong, sessile. Fruiting pedicels slender, ascending, 2-4 mm. Siliculae ovate or broadly elliptical, narrowly winged above, 2-2.5 x 1.5-2 mm; septum 1.5-2 x 0.5 mm" (Davis, 1965; p. 281).
Habitat/ecology: Roadside, waste places, from sea level to 1500 m (Davis, 1965; p. 281).
Propagation: Seed
Native range: Throughout Europe and southwest Asia (Davis, 1965; p. 281).
Presence:
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Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
Reference &
Comments |
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia Archipelago |
Île Grande Terre |
introduced
invasive |
Tassin, Jacques (2005) |
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia Archipelago |
Île Grande Terre |
introduced
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MacKee, H. S. (1994) (p. 44)
Vouchers cited: Baumann 6146, MacKee 2451, MacKee 9942 |
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New Zealand (offshore islands)
Kermadec Islands |
Raoul Island |
introduced
invasive |
Sykes, W. R. (1977) (pp. 102-103) |
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Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
Reference &
Comments |
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China
China |
China (People's Republic of) | Hafliger, Toni J./Wolf, Matthias (1988) (p. 183) | |
| Indian Ocean | |||
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Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
Reference &
Comments |
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Mauritius
Mautitius Islands (Mauritius and Rodrigues) |
Mauritius Island | Holm, Leroy/Pancho, Juan V./Herberger, James P./Plucknett, Donald L. (1979) (p. 212) | |
Additional information:
Additional online information about Lepidium ruderale is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).
Information about Lepidium ruderale as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).
Taxonomic information about Lepidium ruderale may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).
References:
Davis, P. H./Mill, R. R./Tan, Kit, eds. 1965. Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Edinburgh, University Press. 1965-1988, 10 vols.
Hafliger, Toni J./Wolf, Matthias. 1988. Dicot weeds, vol. 1. CIBA-GEIGY Ltd., Basle, Switzerland. 335 pp.
Holm, Leroy/Pancho, Juan V./Herberger, James P./Plucknett, Donald L. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 391 pp.
MacKee, H. S. 1994. Catalogue des plantes introduites et cultivées en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 164 p.
Sykes, W. R. 1977. Kermadec Islands flora: an annotated checklist. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 219, Wellington. 216 pp.
Tassin, Jacques. 2005. Jacques Tassin (IAC-CIRAD), personal communication.
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2009. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.