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Brassicaceae - Lepidieae - *Camelina Crantz

Description:

  • Annual or biennial herbs with taproots and simple, branched or stellate hairs; stems erect, branched above
  • Leaves: basal ones sessile, simple; leaves on stems sagittate-amplexicaul; upper stem leaves smaller
  • Inflorescences terminal, crowded, ebracteate racemes
  • Sepals erect
  • Petals spathulate, yellow or whitish
  • Stamens 6, without appendages; anthers ovoid, obtuse, yellow
  • Nectaries at each side of bases of lateral stamens
  • Ovary pyriform, with very short gynophore; ovules 8-24; style distinct; stigma capitate
  • Fruit a dehiscent, obovoid or obovoid-pyriform silicula; valves convex or inflated, with a strong midrib vanishing above
  • Seeds many, ellipsoid, pale brown, biseriate; cotyledons incumbent
  • x = 8 (aneuploids, polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • *Camelina Crantz
    • Crantz: 17 (1762)
    • Clapham, Tutin & Warburg: 184 (1952)
    • Meikle: 315 (1964)
    • Marais: 1 (1970)
    • Jonsell: 68 (1982)
    • Rich: 37 (1991)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 10, natives of central Europe, eastern Mediterranean and central Asia but widely spread by man
  • Southern Africa: Only twice recorded from South Africa in Gauteng
  • Notes:
    • Cultivated for fibre, seeds for cagebirds and for seed oil (cameline oil). Weed in flax and grain fields in Europe

References:

  • CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G. & WARBURG, E.F. 1952. Cruciferae. Flora of the British Isles, edn 1. University Press, Cambridge
  • CRANTZ, H.J.N. 1762. Stirpium austriarum fasciculus 1. Joseph Kurtzböck, Vienna
  • JONSELL, B. 1982. Cruciferae. Flora of tropical East Africa, Cruciferae
  • MARAIS, W. 1970. Cruciferae. Flora of southern Africa 13
  • MEIKLE, R.D. 1964. Cruciferae. Camelina. Flora europaea 1
  • RICH, T.C.G. 1991. Crucifers of Great Britain and Ireland. Botanical Society of the British Isles, London