Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Camelina Crantz

CAMELINA Crantz

Annual or biennial taprooted herbs. Hairs branched and simple. Stems erect, leafy. Lvs toothed to sinuate to pinnatifid. Racemes embracteate. Sepals erect, non-saccate. Petals yellow. Stamens 6, without appendages. Lateral nectaries 4, paired at bases of single stamens; median nectaries 0. Style short to long; stigma capitate. Silicle obovoid, latiseptate, dehiscent; valves with 1 median and a network of secondary veins. Seeds ellipsoid to orbicular, not winged, in 2 rows per locule.

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Silicle truncate to emarginate at apex, 6-8 mm wide; valves olive green at maturity
Silicle subacute to rounded at apex, 4-5 mm wide; valves pale yellow at maturity

c. 10 spp., Europe, Mediterranean, and C. Asia. Naturalised spp. 2.

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