Megacarpaea megalocarpa Schischk. ex B.Fedtsch.

Species

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Characteristics

Herbs perennial, 20-30(-40) cm tall. Trichomes sparse to dense, flattened, crisped. Roots napiform, to 4 cm wide. Caudex short, covered with fibrous petiolar remains of previous years. Stems erect, stout, divaricately branched above, glabrescent. Petiole of basal leaves 2-6 cm; leaf blade oblanceolate, (5-)8-16 × (1-)2.5-4 cm, densely pubescent, margin pinnatisect, with 4-7 lateral lobes on each side; lobes irregularly laciniate. Cauline leaves sessile; leaf blade similar to basal but smaller. Inflorescences paniculate, with sessile bracts at branching. Flowers irregularly unisexual. Fruiting pedicels stout, straight, divaricate or ascending, 5-10(-15) mm, pubescent. Sepals and petals present in male flowers, absent in female ones. Sepals narrowly oblong, 5-7 × 2-2.5 mm, margin white, scarious, sparsely pubescent. Petals lavender, linear-oblong, 1-1.5 cm × 3.5-4.5 mm, base attenuate, apex obtuse. Intermediate flowers sometimes present, with whitish petals, and stamens and pistil developed to various degrees. Filaments 3-4 mm; anthers linear, 2-2.5 mm. Fruit halves suborbicular, (1-)1.2-1.8(-2) cm in diam.; wings 3-7 mm wide; locule suborbicular, 6-10 × 5-7 mm; replum 4-7 mm; style 0.5-1 mm. Seeds flattened, suborbicular, 5-7 × 3.5-5 mm. Fl. Apr, fr. May-Jun.
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A cabbage family herb. It grows up to 30 cm high. The roots are shaped like a turnip. They are round at the top and taper.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system rhizome
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Flower color
Blooming months
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AprMayJun
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in sandy deserts and on alkaline flats in China. It can grow in arid places.
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Saline semi-deserts. Deserts, dry clayey and solonetzic steppes, occasionally on rocks and stony slopes.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-8

Usage

Uses -
Edible roots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

Megacarpaea megalocarpa unspecified picture

Distribution

Megacarpaea megalocarpa world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:287006-1
WFO ID wfo-0000369690
COL ID 3YQQK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Megacarpaea laciniata Megacarpaea megalocarpa Biscutella maxima Megacarpaea mugodzharica Megacarpaea angulata Biscutella angulata Biscutella laciniata Biscutella megalocarpa