Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Lepidium didymum
mastuerzo de las Indias, quimpe, lesser swine-cress





























Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Capparales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Lepidium
Species
didymum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn: Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm., Senebiera pinnatifida DC. fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010).
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1835
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Contaminant
Subpathway: Contaminant on plants (inc. seeds and plant associated material)
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
- Hooker, J.D. (1847) An Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 163-233.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Andersson, N.J. (1855) Om Galápagos Öarnes Vegetation. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien Handl., Stockholm: 61-256.
- Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Al-Shehbaz, I.A. Mummenhoff, K. & Appel, O. (2002) Cardaria, Coronopus, and Stroganowia are united with Lepidium (Brassicaceae) Novon 12(1): 5–11.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Lepidium didymum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16145. Accessed 12 May 2025.