Lepidium
Meikle, R.D. 1977: Flora of Cyprus 1Stace, C. 2010: New flora of the British Isles, ed. 3 but modified and names used differing
1 | Inflorescences usually short, mostly leaf-opposed |
1' | Inflorescences usually elongate, terminal racemes or panicles |
2 | Not scented; petals longer than sepals; pedicels shorter than fruit; fruit 2-3.5 mm long with protruding style |
2' | Strong smelling when crushed; petals shorter than sepals; pedicels longer than fruit; fruit 1.2-1.7 mm long with very short included style |
3 | Fruit not or scarcely dehiscent; inflorescence a more or less corymbose panicle |
3' | Fruit readily dehiscent; inflorescence a raceme or a racemose to pyramidal panicle |
4 | Silicle cordate, inflated, its base distinctly emarginate; leaves often rather grey-pubescent |
4' | Silicle ovate, elliptical or sub-deltoid, much compressed, its base narrowed or truncate; leaves glabrous to thinly pubescent |
5 | Flowers yellowish; leaves conspicuously dimorphic, the lower pinnatipartite, the upper simple, entire, ovate-amplexicaul |
5' | Flowers white or tinged mauve; leaves more or less uniform, entire, irregularly lobed or pinnatipartite |
6 | Fruiting racemes terminating in a sharp spine |
6' | Fruiting racemes without spine |
7 | Silicle 4-6 x 3-4 mm, usually longer than pedicel |
7' | Silicle 1.5-4 x 1.5-3 mm, usually shorter than pedicel |
8 | Perennial with thick, branched root; silicle not winged |
8' | Annual with slender taproot; silicle winged |