Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
Distribution notes: Exotic
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📚 Overview
Description
Diffuse or procumbent herb, 15-40 cm long; stems angled, sulcate, much branched from base, spreading and ascending. Lower leaves long-petioled, deeply pinnatipartite, 7-10 x 1.5-2 cm, often glabrous; segments lobed, few-toothed; cauline ones much smaller. Racemes 30-60 flowered, dense, 3-5 cm long in fruit. Flowers small; pedicels filiform, to 5 mm long. Sepals ovate-orbicular, minute. Petals linear, ca 0.5 mm long, greenish white. Fertile stamens 2. Fruits emarginate at base, notched at apex, reticulate, 1.5-1.7 x 2-2.5 mm; style much included within notch; seeds reniform, ca 1 mm long, punctate-striate, pale brown.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Habit: Prostrate Herb
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats, Naturalized, Native of Tropical America
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Degraded forests and tea plantations as weed
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Cosmopolitan weed of cultivation
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kottayam, Idukki
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Maharashtra: Kolhapur, Pune, Satara
Karnataka: Belgaum, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore, Shimoga
Kerala: Idukki, Kottayam
Tamil Nadu: Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Nilgiri, Salem, Theni
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002
- Coronopus didymus (L.) Smith, Fl. Brit. 2: 691. 1800; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 64. 1989; Bhaumik in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 192. 1993; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 44. 1998; A.N. Henry & T. Ravish. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 217. 2005.
- Senebiera didyma (L.) Pers., Syn. 2: 185. 1800; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 39(28). 1915.
- Lepidium didymum L., Mant. Pl. 1: 92. 1767.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002
- Coronopus didymus (L.) Smith, Fl. Brit. 2: 691. 1800; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 64. 1989; Bhaumik in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 192. 1993; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 44. 1998; A.N. Henry & T. Ravish. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 217. 2005.
- Senebiera didyma (L.) Pers., Syn. 2: 185. 1800; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 39(28). 1915.
- Lepidium didymum L., Mant. Pl. 1: 92. 1767.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Brassicales |
| Family | Brassicaceae |
| Genus | Lepidium |
| Species | Lepidium didymum L. |
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