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Brassicaceae - Brassiceae - *Crambe L.

Description:

  • Annual or perennial herbs or suffrutices, glabrous or with simple hairs
  • Leaves with lower ones pinnatisect, rarely entire; upper leaves small, linear
  • Inflorescence branched, racemose
  • Sepals erect, spreading, inner two slightly saccate
  • Petals shortly clawed or cuneate, white or pale yellow
  • Stamens 6; long filaments 4, usually with tooth-like appendages
  • Nectaries with lateral ones semilunar; median ones ± conical
  • Fruit a transversely articulate silicula on gynophore; lower segment short, sterile, stalk-like; upper segment ovoid to globose, hard, indehiscent, 1-seeded; stigma sessile
  • Seeds faintly sculptured or smooth, spheroid; cotyledons folded around incumbent radicle
  • x = 10 (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • *Crambe L.
    • Linnaeus: 671 (1753)
    • Linnaeus: 301 (1754)
    • Schulz: 228 (1919)
    • Ball: 297 (1964)
    • Marais: 15 (1970)
    • Jonsell: 15 (1982)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 20, W Asia, central Europe, the Mediterranean region, northern tropical Africa
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: *Crambe hispanica L. introduced and restricted to KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BALL, P.W. 1964. Cruciferae. Alyssum [and other genera]. Flora europaea 1
  • JONSELL, B. 1982. Cruciferae. Flora of tropical East Africa, Cruciferae
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1753. Species plantarum. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1754. Genera plantarum, edn 5. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • MARAIS, W. 1970. Cruciferae. Flora of southern Africa 13
  • SCHULZ, O.E. 1919. Cruciferae. Das Pflanzenreich 4, 105, Heft 70

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