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Description
Genus Malcolmia
Herbs annual
, biennial, or perennial
with a woody caudex
. Trichomes
a mixture of simple
, forked
, or stellate
, sometimes malpighiaceous. Stems erect
or ascending
. Basal leaves
not rosulate, simple, entire or variously dentate
or pinnatifid
. Cauline leaves petiolate
or subsessile
, not auriculate
, entire, dentate, or rarely lobed
. Racemes
few to many flowered, ebracteate
or rarely bracteate
. Fruiting pedicels slender or thickened, ascending or divaricate
. Sepals ovate
or narrowly oblong
, erect, glabrous
or pubescent
, base
of lateral
pair saccate
or not. Petals white, pink, or purple, longer
than sepals; blade
obovate
, spatulate
, oblong, or oblanceolate
, apex obtuse
or rounded
; claw
well developed. Stamens 6, erect, tetradynamous
; filaments
dilated
or not at base, free
or median
4 connate
in 2 pairs; anthers
ovate, oblong, or linear
, apex apiculate
or not. Median glands absent; lateral glands 1 on each side of lateral stamen, or lunar
. Ovules 20-90 per ovary. Fruit dehiscent
siliques, linear, terete
, 4-angled, or latiseptate
, subsessile; valves
glabrous or pubescent, smooth
or torulose
; replum rounded; septum complete
; style obsolete
or to 1 mm or longer; stigma conical
, 2-lobed, lobes
connivent, often connate, opposite replum. Seeds uniseriate
, wingless, oblong or ovate, plump or slightly flattened; seed coat
reticulate
, not mucilaginous
when wetted; cotyledons incumbent
or rarely accumbent
.
About 35 species: C and SW Asia, Mediterranean region; four species in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Brassicales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Cruciferae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Tribe:
Euclidieae
()
- Genus:
Malcolmia
()
- R. Brown, in W. Aiton & W.T. Aiton, 1812, nom. cons., orth. cons.
- Malcolmia
- Specific epithet:
perennans
- Maxim.
- Botanical name: - Malcolmia perennans Maxim.
- Specific epithet:
perennans
- Maxim.
- Genus:
Malcolmia
(
- Tribe:
Euclidieae
(
- Family:
Cruciferae
(
- Order:
Brassicales
(
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Malcolmia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
M. africana (African Adder's-Mouth) · M. graeca (Malcolm Stock) · M. maritima (Virginia Stock)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9248832
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15271604
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286785-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3200430
Footnotes
- Tai-yien Cheo, Lianli Lu, Guang Yang, Ihsan Al-Shehbaz & Vladimir Dorofeev "Malcolmia". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 154. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
