目前为止，中国西南野生生物种质资源库共保藏该物种: 种子97份; DNA材料181份; DNA5份;

• 科:十字花科    Brassicaceae
• 属:独行菜属   Lepidium
• 种:独行菜   Lepidium apetalum

16. Lepidium apetalum Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 3: 439. 1800. 独行菜 du xing cai Lepidium chitungense Jacot.Herbs annual or biennial, (5-)10-25(-40) cm tall, puberulent with clavate or capitate trichomes. Stems erect, branched basally and above. Petiole of basal leaves (0.5-)1-3 cm; leaf blade oblong, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 1.5-4(-5) × 0.7-1.2(-1.5) cm, pinnatifid, sinuate, or dentate. Upper cauline leaves sessile; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, linear-oblong, or linear, 0.6-3(-4) cm × 1-3(-5) mm, base subauriculate or sometimes cuneate, margin remotely serrate or entire, apex acute to subobtuse. Fruiting pedicels slender, often recurved, 2-4(-5) mm, puberulent only adaxially with clavate or capitate trichomes, slightly flattened or narrowly winged. Sepals caducous, oblong, 0.7-0.8 × 0.3-0.4 mm, glabrous or puberulent, white at margin and apex. Petals absent, or rudimentary, linear, ca. 0.3 mm. Stamens 2; filaments 0.7-0.8 mm; anthers broadly ovate, 0.1-0.2 mm. Fruit broadly elliptic, 2.2-3.1 × 1.7-2.3 mm, widest at middle, apex narrowly winged; apical notch 0.1-0.3 mm; style 0.05-0.15 mm, included in apical notch. Seeds reddish brown, ovate-oblong, 1.1-1.3 × 0.6-0.8 mm, wingless, finely papillate; cotyledons incumbent. Fl. Apr-Aug, fr. May-Sep.Roadsides, slopes, waste places, ravines, plains, fields; 400-4800 m. Anhui, Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan].The above first record from Mongolia is based on Chaney 498 (US).【引自：Flora of China】

一年或二年生草本，高5-30厘米；茎直立，有分枝，无毛或具微小头状毛。基生叶窄匙形，一回羽状浅裂或深裂，长3-5厘米，宽1-1.5厘米；叶柄长1-2厘米；茎上部叶线形，有疏齿或全缘。总状花序在果期可延长至5厘米；萼片早落，卵形，长约0.8毫米，外面有柔毛；花瓣不存或退化成丝状，比萼片短；雄蕊2或4。短角果近圆形或宽椭圆形，扁平，长2-3毫米，宽约2毫米，顶端微缺，上部有短翅，隔膜宽不到1毫米；果梗弧形，长约3毫米。种子椭圆形，长约1毫米，平滑，棕红色。花果期5-7月。 【引自：中国植物志】