Carrichtera

de Candolle

Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 244, 250. 1821.

Etymology: For Bartholomaeus Carrichter, sixteenth-century herbalist, alchemist, and physician to Emperor Maximilian II
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 429. Mentioned on page 232, 238, 419.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA7 P51 Cakile edentula.jpegCakile edentula
Cakile edentula subsp. edentula
Cakile edentula var. edentula
Carrichtera annua
Coincya monensis
Coincya monensis subsp. recurvata
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Annuals; not scapose; hirsute [glabrous], (trichomes often retrorse). Stems usually erect or ascending, rarely decumbent, usually branched, rarely simple. Leaves basal and cauline; petiolate or subsessile; basal not rosulate, petiolate, blade 1-pinnatisect or 2-pinnatisect, margins entire; cauline subsessile or shortly petiolate, blade 1-pinnatisect or 2-pinnatisect, (base not auriculate), margins entire. Racemes (lax), considerably elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels strongly recurved, often secund, not thickened. Flowers: sepals erect, oblong-linear, lateral pair slightly saccate basally; petals cream or pale-yellow (with dark purple or brown veins, longer than sepals), spatulate to obovate, claw strongly differentiated from blade; stamens tetradynamous, (erect); filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate to oblong, (apiculate); nectar glands: lateral intrastaminal, globose to semiannular, median glands present (distinct). Fruits silicles, dehiscent, sessile, segments 2, ovoid to ellipsoid, terete; (proximal segment not torulose, 4–6-seeded; terminal segment indehiscent, flattened, cochleariform to short-lingulate, seedless); valves each with prominent midvein and distinct marginal veins, glabrous except setose or hirsute on veins; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 4–6 per ovary; (style obscure); stigma capitate, 2-lobed. Seeds biseriate, plump, not winged, subglobose; seed-coat (smooth), mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate. x = 8.

Distribution

Introduced; Calif., s Europe, sw Asia, n Africa, also in Australia

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

"elongated" is not a number."thick" is not a number.

... more about "Carrichtera"
ovate +  and oblong +
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz +
de Candolle +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
2-pinnatisect +  and 1-pinnatisect +
not +  and auriculate +
dissected +, repand +, sinuate +, crenate +  and dentate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
petiolate +  and subsessile +
well-developed +
distinct +
differentiated +
emarginate +  and entire +
incumbent +, accumbent +  and conduplicate +
Calif. +, s Europe +, sw Asia +, n Africa +  and also in Australia +
straight +  and curved +
For Bartholomaeus Carrichter, sixteenth-century herbalist, alchemist, and physician to Emperor Maximilian II +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
terete +  and segmented +
subsessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
cauline +  and basal +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
lobed;serrate;lobed;serrate +
intrastaminal +  and lateral +
globose +  and semiannular +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
pale-yellow +  and cream +
rudimentary +
spatulate +  and obovate +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. +
not thickened +
mucilaginous +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
subglobose +
terete +, ovoid +  and ellipsoid +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
reduced +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
terete +  and segmented +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
terete +  and segmented +
tetradynamous +
simple +  and branched +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
ascending +  and erect +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
Cruciferae +
Carrichtera +
Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae +
scale-like +  and forked +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
anastomosing +
hirsute +  and setose +
rhizomatous +, taprooted +, scapose +  and not +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
subshrub +  and herb +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +