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Barbarea australis

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Species of flowering plant

Barbarea australis
Conservation status
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Critically endangered  (EPBC Act) 
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Barbarea
Species: B. australis
Binomial name
Barbarea australis
Hook.f.

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.

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.

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
Taxon identifiers
Barbarea australis


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