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Lepidium peregrinum Thell. ex Druce

Wandering pepper-cress, Pilgrim pepper-cress

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1913 or later

Rediscovered in 1990 or before

 

Distribution

New South Wales & Queensland, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

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.

Hewson HJ (1982). The genus Lepidium L. (Brassicaceae) in Australia. Brunonia 4: 217-308.

H.J.Hewson (2017) Lepidium peregrinum. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Lepidium%20peregrinum [Date Accessed: 13 January 2020]

Hnatiuk, R.J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.

Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. [Abstract] [Supplementary Dataset 1]

Queensland Herbarium (2007). Lepidium peregrinum, nomination for re-classifying rare wildlife under the Nature Conservation Act 1992. Queensland Government, Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service. (unpublished)

Scarlett NH (undated) Draft Recovery Plan for the Endangered Pilgrim Pepper-cress (Lepidium peregrinum Thell) (2009-2014) in New South Wales and Queensland. Latrobe University Botany Department.

Scarlett NH (1999). The identity of Lepidium peregrinum (Brassicaceae), an endangered Australian plant species. Teleopea 8: 337-350.

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/determinations/LepidiumPeregrinumEndSpListing.htm

 

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