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Erucastrum arabicum

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Name

Identification
Sisymbrium hararense Engl. [family CRUCIFERAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Erucastrum arabicum Fisch. & C.A.Mey. [family CRUCIFERAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Chorispora tenella
  • Sisymbrium hararense
  • Erucastrum meruense
  • Erucastrum abyssinicum
  • Diplotaxis unrecorded
  • Erucastrum arabicum
  • Brassica schimperi

Flora

Entry for ERUCASTRUM arabicum Fisch. & Mey. [family CRUCIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by B. Jonsell (Brassica, Diceratella, Diplotaxis, Erucastrum, Farsetia, Matthiola, Schouwia, Sisymbrium) and M. Thulin (Arabidopsis, Arabis, Cardamine, Eruca and Moricandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ERUCASTRUM arabicum Fisch. & Mey. [family CRUCIFERAE], (1838).
Information
Annual erect herb, up to 100 cm tall, sparsely to moderately hispid. Lower leaves petiolate, up to 18 x 5 cm, spathulate to lyrate-pinnatifid (or even pinnatisect); margins irregularly dentate, sinuate or repand; upper leaves ± sessile, smaller, less divided. Racemes ebracteate or with bracts at the lowermost pedicels. Sepals 2.5–3.5 mm. Petals 3.5–6 mm long, bright yellow, spathulate to almost clawed. Siliquae 15–50 x c. 1.5 mm, straight; beak 1.5–4.5 mm long; valves glabrous to sparsely hispidulous. Pedicels 3–20 mm long, ascending. Seeds 0.8–1.2 mm long, light to dark brown, smooth or very finely reticulate.
Range
N1–3 East Africa
Altitude range
1200–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Drake-Brockman 266; Gillett 4895; Wood 5/72.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Rwanda
E Dem. Rep. Congo
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Namibia
Arabia

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