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Brassicaceae - Brassiceae - *Lobularia Desv.

Description:

  • Annual to perennial herbs, with appressed, medifixed hairs
  • Leaves narrow, entire
  • Inflorescences terminal racemes, dense in flower, elongate in fruit
  • Sepals spreading, not saccate at base
  • Petals clawed, entire, white or pinkish
  • Stamens 6; filaments without appendages
  • Ovary with 2-10 ovules
  • Fruit a circular or ovate, compressed silicula; valves flat or ± inflated, faintly reticulately veined
  • Seeds compressed, narrowly winged; cotyledons accumbent
  • x = 6 (aneuploids, polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • *Lobularia Desv.
    • Desvaux: 162 (1814)
    • Schulz: 494 (1936)
    • Ball: 307 (1964)
    • Marais: 99 (1970)
  • Under Alyssum L.
    • Sonder: 24 (1860)
    • Adamson: 421 (1950)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 5, Cape Verde, Canary Islands and Mediterranean region
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: *Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv., an escape in Western Cape

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
  • 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
  • SONDER, O.W. 1860. Crucifereae. Flora capensis 1

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