e-Key v3 - *Cardaria
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Interactive keys to the identification of seed plants of southern Africa using keys based on plant morphology.

Brassicaceae - Lepidieae - *Cardaria Desv.

Description :

  • Perennial herbs with creeping rootstock; stems several, densely leafy; hairs simple
  • Leaves with lower ones petiolate, lobed; stem leaves sessile, sagittate, amplexicaul
  • Inflorescence an ebracteate, corymbose panicle
  • Sepals spreading, not saccate
  • Petals clawed, white
  • Stamens 6; filaments without appendages
  • Nectaries 6, 2 median glands triangular, lateral ones semicircular
  • Ovary with 2-4 ovules
  • Fruit a broadly ovate to obcordate silicula, indehiscent, 2(1)-seeded
  • Seeds ovoid or ellipsoid; cotyledons incumbent
  • x = 8 (aneuploids, polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • *Cardaria Desv.
    • Desvaux: 163 (1814)
    • Schulz: 415 (1936)
    • Ball: 333 (1964)
    • Marais: 96 (1970)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species 1, Mediterranean
  • Southern Africa : Species 1: * Cardaria draba (L.) Desv., naturalised

References:

  • BALL, P.W. 1964. Cruciferae . Alyssum [and other genera]. Flora europaea 1
  • DESVAUX, N.A. 1814. Journal de Botanique, appliquée à l'Agriculture, Paris 3
  • MARAIS, W. 1970. Cruciferae . Flora of southern Africa 13
  • SCHULZ, O.E. 1936. Cruciferae . Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien II,17b