- Family: Brassicaceae Burnett
Camelina Crantz
[FTEA]
Cruciferae, Bengt Jonsell (University of Stockholm). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or biennial herbs with taproot and simple or branched hairs
- Morphology Stem
- Stems ± erect, with sessile undivided ± sagittate leaves
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Racemes ebracteate, terminal
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals not saccate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals yellow or whitish, spathulate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 6, with linear filaments; anthers ovoid, obtuse
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Nectaries
- Nectaries at each side of the bases of the lateral stamens
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary pyriform, with very short gynophore and distinct style; stigma capitate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a silicula, dehiscent, with broad septum, obovoid to pyriform; valves distinctly convex
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds numerous, elliptic in outline, ± trigonous, mucilaginous.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alabama, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Brazil South, British Columbia, California, Chile Central, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Great Britain, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Korea, Kriti, Labrador, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northwest Territorie, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, Sicilia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon
Camelina Crantz appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Stirp. Austr. Fasc. 1: 18 (1762)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Tedin in Hereditas 6: 275–386 (1925)
- Zinger in Trav. Mus. Bot. Acad. Pétersb. 6: 1–303 (1909)
- Stirp. Austr. 1:17 (1762)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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