Argentine Pepperweed

(Lepidium bonariense)

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Description

It is an annual or perennial plant, herbaceous, uni or pluricaule, glabrescent. Axonomorphic root, - crass. The stems reach a size of 20-70 cm in height, erect, branched at the top, covered with fine hairs. Leaves basal, petiolate, pinnatisectas with pinniphyseal segments, lanceolate; The caulinares, progressively less divided; Pinna, or pinnatifiidae. The inflorescences in dense clusters in the fructify. White petals; Sometimes nonexistent. Fruits suborbicular, aquillados, very narrowly winged - with wing of less than 1 mm - in the superior part, of obtuse apex and shallow notch. Seeds 1.5 x 0.9 mm, narrowly winged, weakly papillose, with a yellowish brown. It has a number of chromosomes 2n = 64. 1

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Brassicales
Family:Brassicaceae
Genus:Lepidium
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