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Brassicaceae - Lepidieae - *Coronopus Zinn

Description:

  • Annual, biennial or perennial herbs with a taproot, glabrous or with simple hairs; stems leafy
  • Leaves pinnatifid or entire
  • Inflorescences: lateral racemes becoming overtopped by lateral growth, mostly opposite leaves
  • Sepals spreading, not saccate
  • Petals 4 or 0, white, yellowish or purplish
  • Stamens 2, 4 or 6; filaments without appendages
  • Nectaries 6, small, 2 median, 4 lateral
  • Ovary flat; ovules 2 per locule; style short or rudimentary
  • Fruit an angustiseptate silicula, reniform or with 2 globose halves, dorsally compressed, indehiscent or breaking into 2 halves, 2-seeded
  • Seeds ovoid-ellipsoid; cotyledons incumbent
  • x = 8 (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • *Coronopus Zinn
    • Zinn: 325 (1757) name conserved
    • Schulz: 410 (1936)
    • Adamson: 420 (1950)
    • Phillips: 348 (1951)
    • Exell: 193 (1960)
    • Ball: 325 (1964)
    • Schreiber: P48:2-1 (1966)
    • Marais: 94 (1970)
    • Jonsell: 23 (1982)
  • Senebiera DC.
    • Candolle: 140 (1799)
    • Sonder: 27 (1860)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 10, Mediterranean, southeast Africa and South America, but now almost cosmopolitan
  • Southern Africa: Species 3, naturalised, widespread

References:

  • ADAMSON, R.S. 1950. Cruciferae Juss. In R.S. Adamson & T.M. Salter, Flora of the Cape Peninsula. Juta, Cape Town
  • BALL, P.W. 1964. Cruciferae. Alyssum [and other genera]. Flora europaea 1
  • CANDOLLE, A.-P. DE. 1799. Senebiera. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1
  • EXELL, A.W. 1960. Cruciferae. Flora zambesiaca 1
  • JONSELL, B. 1982. Cruciferae. Flora of tropical East Africa, Cruciferae
  • MARAIS, W. 1970. Cruciferae. Flora of southern Africa 13
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants, edn 2. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25
  • SCHREIBER, A. 1966. Brassicaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 48
  • SCHULZ, O.E. 1936. Cruciferae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien II,17b
  • SONDER, O.W. 1860. Crucifereae. Flora capensis 1
  • ZINN, J.G. 1757. Catalogus plantarum horti academici et agri gottingensis. Vandenhoeck, Göttingen