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Lepidium amissum
Waitakere scurvy grass (Lepidium amissum) was a perennial herb in the cabbage family, once found only on sea cliffs in the Waitakere Ranges of West Auckland, New Zealand. It is now extinct, so it cannot be grown or bought as a living plant.
Lepidium amissum, also known as Waitakere scurvy grass, is an extinct species of plant in the family Brassicaceae. The plant was first described by Peter de Lange and Peter Brian Heenan in 2013, and was formerly endemic to the sea cliffs of the Waitākere Ranges of West Auckland, New Zealand.
The species was endemic to New Zealand, thought to grow exclusively along sea cliffs of the coastline of the Waitākere Ranges of West Auckland, New Zealand.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidium amissum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
