Brassicaceae
Lepidium

Lepidium peregrinum Thell.

First published in Rep. Bot. Exch. Club Soc. Brit. Isles 3: 153 (1912 publ. 1913)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales. It is a perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

New South Wales, Queensland

Introduced into:

Great Britain, New Zealand North, Switzerland

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (1982). Flora of Australia 8: 1-420. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Heenan, P.B. & de Lange, P.J. (2011). Lepidium peregrinum (Brassicaceae) - a new addition to the New Zealand flora. New Zealand Journal of Botany 49: 489-496.
  • Humphreys, A.M., Govaerts, R., Ficinski, S.Z., Nic Lughadha, E. & Vorontsova, M.S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Heenan, P.B. & de Lange, P.J. (2011). Lepidium peregrinum (Brassicaceae) - a new addition to the New Zealand flora. New Zealand Journal of Botany 49: 489-496.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0