Barbarea australis

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Barbarea australis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Barbarea
Species:
B. australis
Binomial name
Barbarea australis

Barbarea australis, commonly known as native wintercress or riverbed wintercress, is a morphologically and ecologically typical Barbarea species with an unusual distribution: it is an endemic and threatened species from Tasmania. [4] The leaves have a large end-lobe and only few side lobes, much like the leaf-shape of Barbarea stricta and Barbarea orthoceras . With regard to defence chemicals (glucosinolates), it is similar to other members of the genus. [5]

Cultivation

Although the plant remains critically endangered in the wild, Native wintercress is available for home garden cultivation. All above-ground parts of the plant are edible, with the leaves tasting similar to rocket. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Barbarea australis – Native Wintercress, Riverbed Wintercress". Threatened Species & Ecological Communities. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  2. ↑ "Barbarea australis". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens.
  3. ↑ Hooker, J.D. (1853). "Barbarea australis". The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843 :under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. 2 (1): 14.
  4. ↑ J. B. Kirkpatrick & Louise Gilfedder (1998). "Conserving weedy natives: two Tasmanian endangered herbs in the Brassicaceae". Australian Journal of Ecology . 23 (5): 466–473. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.1998.tb00754.x.
  5. ↑ Niels Agerbirk & Karl Erik Olsen (2011). "Isoferuloyl derivatives of five seed glucosinolates in the crucifer genus Barbarea". Phytochemistry . 72 (7): 610–623. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2011.01.034. PMID   21354584.
  6. ↑ Native Wintercress - Tucker Bush edible Australian plants


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