Strigosella africana (L.) Botsch.

Malcolmie d'Afrique (fr), Julienne d'Afrique (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Strigosella

Characteristics

Plants usually sparsely to densely pubescent, rarely glabrescent, trichomes short-stalked, forked or subdendritic, these, sometimes, with simple, subsetiform ones. Stems unbranched or branched proximally, (0.4-)1.5-3(-5) dm, pubescent. Basal leaves soon withered. Cauline leaves petiolate or (distal) subsessile; petiole (0.1-) 0.6-2(-3) cm; blade elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong, (0.5-)1.5-6(-10) cm × (3-)10-25(-35) mm (smaller distally), base cuneate, apex acute. Racemes: rachis straight or slightly flexuous. Fruiting pedicels 0.5-2(-4) mm. Flowers: sepals sometimes persistent, (3.5-)4-5 × 0.5-0.7 mm; petals narrowly oblanceolate, (6.5-) 8-10(-12) × 1-2 mm; filaments distinct, 2.5-5 mm; anthers narrowly oblong, 0.9-1.1 mm. Fruits divaricate-ascending, straight, (2.5-)3.5-5.5(-7) cm × 1-1.3 mm; valves usually pubescent, rarely glabrous, trichomes coarse and forked, these mixed with smaller, forked, subdendritic, or simple, subsetiform ones; stigma to 1 mm. Seeds 1-1.2 × 0.5-0.6 mm. 2n = 14, 28.
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Growth form herb
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Images

Strigosella africana unspecified picture

Distribution

Strigosella africana world distribution map, present in Canada and France

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:290200-1
WFO ID wfo-0000432092
COL ID 5327W
BDTFX ID 66484
INPN ID 125228
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Malcolmia halophila Malcolmia calycina Strigosella africana Fedtschenkoa stenopetala Fedtschenkoa taraxacifolia Hesperis africana Hesperis hispida Hesperis pachypodium Cheiranthus scaber Crucifera africana Erysimum polyceratum Fedtschenkoa taraxacifolia Malcolmia divaricata Malcolmia laxa Hesperis laxa Fedtschenkoa africana Wilckia africana Hesperis jasa Strigosella africana var. laxa