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Native wintercress or riverbed wintercre
Barbarea australis

About
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. 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.
- Family
- Brassicaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Barbarea australis
- Slug
- barbarea-australis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Barbarea
- Species
- australis
- Wikidata QID
- Q4859439
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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