South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Crambe hispanica [family BRASSICACEAE]
Information
Slender annual herbs up to 1 m tall but usually much smaller; young parts and especially near the base densely hispid, glabrescent. Lower leaves lyrate-pinnatisect with 1-2 pairs of very small lateral lobes and a large, ovate-oblong to reniform-orbicular, terminal lobe. Racemes dense in flower, lax in fruit. Flowers small, white, the petals 3-4 mm long. Siliculae small, the lower segment about 1 mm long, cylindrical; the upper segment 3-4-5 mm in diameter, globose, 8-nerved, reticulate.
Use
Crambe hispanica L., Sp. PI. 671 (1753); O. E. Schulz in Pflanzenr. 4,105,1: 241 (1919). Type: from Europe.
Range
A native of the Mediterranean region. Twice recorded from South Africa, in 1920 and 1924.
