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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Cakile Mill.

CAKILE Miller

Annual taprooted herbs. Glabrous. Stems ascending, leafy. Lvs not lobed to pinnatifid; margin entire, crenate or bluntly toothed. Racemes ebracteate. Sepals erect, the inner saccate. Petals white to pink to purple. Stamens 6, without appendages. Lateral nectaries 2, crescent-shaped behind single stamens; median 2, variously shaped, in front of paired stamens. Style short; stigma capitate. Silique indehiscent, dry and corky, composed of 2 falsely 1-celled, jointed, indehiscent segments: upper segment beaked, terete or angled, detaching at joint; lower segment narrower, cylindric, or obconic, sometimes weakly angled, stalk-like when seedless. Seeds ellipsoid, not winged, (0)-1 per segment.

Key

1
Lower fr. segment without lateral horns at distal end; upper segment ovate, acuminate, 4-angled or 8-ribbed, somewhat flattened; infl. rachis flexuous
1. *edentula
Lower fr. segment with 2 lateral or deflexed horns at distal end; upper segment mitre-shaped, acute, 4-angled; infl. rachis straight
2. *maritima

7 spp., N. America, Europe, Mediterranean and Middle East. Naturalised spp. 2.

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