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Cakile geniculata

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Name

Identification
Cakile maritima Scopoli [family BRASSICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by B. L. Rob., 1895 Cakile maritima Scopoli [family BRASSICACEAE ] Verified by B. L. Rob., 1895 Cakile geniculata (Robinson) Millspaugh [family BRASSICACEAE ] Verified by James Eric Rodman, 1972
Related name
  • Cakile americana
  • Cakile paradoxa
  • Cakile maritima
  • Cakile geniculata

Flora

Entry for Cakile geniculata ( B. L. Robinson) Millspaugh [family CRUCIFERAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 7,
Names
Cakile geniculata ( B. L. Robinson) Millspaugh [family CRUCIFERAE], Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser., 2: 126. 1900
Cakile maritima var. geniculata B. L. Robinson [family CRUCIFERAE], in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer., 1(1,1): 132. 1895
Cakile lanceolata (Willdenow) O. E. Schulz var. geniculata (B. L. Robinson) Shinners [family CRUCIFERAE]
Treatment Author(s)
James E. Rodman
Information
Annuals. Stems erect, (sometimes suffrutescent, much-branched), to 10 dm. Cauline leaves: blade broadly ovate or spatulate, margins sinuate, dentate, or pinnately lobed. Racemes: 1–2 dm; rachis geniculate. Fruiting pedicels (rachis of equal width), 2–5 mm, (widely spaced). Flowers: sepals 3–4 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white to pale lavender, 4–6.1 × 1.2–1.9 mm, claw distinct. Fruits (8-ribbed), lanceoloid, 20–27 × 3–5 mm; proximal segment terete, (6–11 mm); terminal segment slenderly conical, (13–18 mm), apex acute to blunt, (often slightly curved). Seeds: cotyledons accumbent to obliquely incumbent. 2n = 18.
Phenology
mar-may (spring), jun-aug (summer)
Altitude range
ca. 0 m;
Distribution
Mexico (Tamaulipas).Mexico (Veracruz).USA La.USA Tex.

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