Diplotaxis erucoides

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• Description
• Biology
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Genus Diplotaxis

Herbs annual or perennial . Trichomes absent or simple . Stems erect or ascending , rarely procumbent . Basal leaves petiolate , rosulate or not, dentate , lyrate, pinnatifid , or pinnatisect , rarely bipinnatipartite. Cauline leaves petiolate or sessile and sometimes auriculate . Racemes ebracteate or rarely lowermost flowers bracteate , elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels ascending, divaricate , or recurved. Sepals oblong or linear , erect or spreading , base of lateral pair often not saccate . Petals yellow, white, pink, or purple, longer than sepals; blade obovate or suborbicular , apex obtuse or emarginate ; claw absent or as long as or shorter than sepals. Stamens 6, tetradynamous ; filaments not dilated at base; anthers oblong, obtuse at apex. Nectar glands 4; median glands large; lateral glands smaller. Ovules 16-260 per ovary. Fruit dehiscent siliques, linear, latiseptate or terete , glabrous , sessile or long stipitate , unsegmented or segmented ; valvular segment well developed, dehiscent , numerous seeded, much longer than terminal segment, torulose , with a distinct midvein ; terminal segment indehiscent, seedless or 1- or 2-seeded; replum rounded ; septum complete ; style obsolete to 4 mm; stigma capitate, entire or 2-lobed. Seeds biseriate , wingless, oblong, ovoid , or ellipsoid , slightly flattened; seed coat smooth or minutely reticulate , slightly mucilaginous or not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate .

About 30 species: especially in NW Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and Macaronesia, extending into C Asia; one species (introduced ) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,347 meters (0 to 4,419 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual , Biennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Diplotaxis erucoides< /i> (L.) Dc. • Sinapis Erucoides

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Diplotaxis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

D. erucoides (Garden Wallrocket) · D. erucoides 'Voyager' (Rocket Salad) · D. muralis (Annual Wallrocket) · D. siifolia (Wallrocket) · D. tenuifolia (Perennial Wallrocket)

More Info

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Further Reading

• ... Flora of Glacier National Park, Montana, by Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1921. url p. 347.
• A contribution to our knowledge of seedlings; by the Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., ltd., 1892. url , p. 141, p. 160.
• A manual of poisonous plants: chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations / by L. H. Pammel. 1911 Cedar Rapids, Ia.: The Torch Press, 1910-11. url p. 818, p. 937.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 127, p. 13, p. 156, p. 173, p. 177, p. 177, p. 211, p. 249, p. 286, p. 286, p. 361, p. 434, p. 51, p. 53, p. 53, p. 65.
• Botanical abstracts. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co. url p. 190, p. 196.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1903 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 10, p. 11, p. 17.
• Catalogue of scientific papers (1800-1900) Comp. by the Royal society of London. Cambridge, C. J. Clay and sons, 1867-1902; url p. 421, p. 917.
• Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. Compiled by the Royal Society of London. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1867-1902 [etc.] Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914-25. url p. 421, p. 917.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 22 1920-1927 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 347.
• Flora of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and neighboring parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and British Columbia, by P.A. Rydberg. .. New York, The author, 1922. url p. 1122.
• Flora of tropical Africa. By Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. London, L. Reeve, 1868-1902. url p. 66.
• Florula Mortolensis. An enumeration of the plants growing wild at La Mortola. Ventimiglia, Billi, 1905. url .
• Flowering plants of the Riviera: a sescriptive account of 1800 of the more interesting species / by H. Stuart Thompson; with an introduction on Riviera vegetation by A. G. Tansley London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1914. url , p. 38, p. ix.
• Handbook of flower pollination based upon Hermann Müller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects'; tr. by J.R. Ainsworth Davis. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906. url p. 39.
• Handbook of flower pollination: based upon Hermann Mu?ller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' / Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906-09. url .
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• La botanica. Roma: Instituto per la propaganda della cultura italiana, 1920. url p. 65.
• Marcellia. New York [etc.]Pergamon Press [etc.] url p. 167, p. 182.
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p.
• Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 2 1902 Edinburgh: H. M. Stationery Off. url p. 7.
• Oliver, D. Flora of tropical Africa /by Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. 1 1868 London: L. Reeve and co., 1868-1999. url p. 66.
• Pharmacographia: a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury. London: Macmillan, 1879. url p. 65, p. 779.
• Plant sociology; the study of plant communities; authorized English translation of Pflanzensoziologie, by Dr. J. Braun-Blanquet. Translated, revised and edited by George D. Fuller and Henry S. Conard. New York and London, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1932. url p. 415.
• Preliminary catalog of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta, reported as growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of New York City. New York, 1888. url p. 75.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 201.
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• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 626, p. 693.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 433.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 11, 2007:

• Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien
• GBIF-Spain, Aranzadi Zientzi Elkartea
• GBIF-Spain, BDBCV BioBlitz in Penyagolosa
• GBIF-Spain, Botánica, Universidad de León: LEB-Cormo
• GBIF-Spain, CIBIO, Alicante:ABH-GBIF
• GBIF-Spain, Departamento de Biolog. Veg. II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid: MAF
• GBIF-Spain, Dirección General de Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación de la Junta de Extremadura(DGIDTI): HSS
• GBIF-Spain, Herbario Universidad de Málaga: MGC-Cormófitos
• GBIF-Spain, Herbario de la Universidad de Sevilla, SEV
• GBIF-Spain, Hortus Botanicus Sollerensis Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Jardi Botanic de Valencia: VAL
• GBIF-Spain, Jardín Botánico de Córdoba: Herbarium COA
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Univ. Herbarium SALAMANCA: SALA
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Almería, HUAL
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad del País Vasco/EHU, Bilbao: Herbario BIO
• GBIF-Spain, Universitat de Girona: HGI-Cormophyta
• Herbario SANT, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, SANT herbarium vascular plant collection
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Vascular Plant Herbarium, Oslo
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen
• SysTax, Museu Botanico Municipal
• SysTax, SysTax
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Botany
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Botanical Society of the British Isles - Vascular Plants Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2648735
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Mus-1267
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:282178-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 14368
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 23117
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDBRA0Z010
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: DIER5
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 34890

Footnotes

1. Tai-yien Cheo, Lianli Lu, Guang Yang, Ihsan Al-Shehbaz & Vladimir Dorofeev "Diplotaxis". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 23. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 289.830 meters (950.886 feet), Standard Deviation = 347.420 based on 263 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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