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Common Names
Common Names in Spanish:
Col de Risco
Description
Genus Crambe
Herbs annual
or perennial
, rarely subshrubs
. Trichomes
absent or simple
. Stems erect
, often simple basally, much branched apically. Basal leaves
long petiolate
, rosulate or not, simple, dentate
, lyrate, or pinnately lobed
, often very large. Cauline leaves petiolate, similar to basal leaves. Racemes
many flowered, usually lax
, ebracteate
, often in panicles, elongated considerably in fruit. Fruiting pedicels slender, erect or divaricate
. Sepals ovate
or oblong
, ascending
or spreading
, not saccate
. Petals white or rarely yellow, spreading or ascending, longer
than sepals; blade
obovate
or oblong, apex obtuse
; claw
much shorter than sepals. Stamens 6, strongly tetradynamous
; filaments
not dilated
at base
; lateral
pair filiform
, wingless, unappendaged; median
pairs winged
and/or toothed
, rarely filiform and toothless; anthers
ovate or oblong, obtuse at apex. Nectar glands 4; median pair large, globose
or oblong; lateral pair minute, intrastaminal
, semiannular. Ovules 2 per ovary. Fruit indehiscent, nutletlike silicles
, segmented
; basal segment seedless, much shorter than terminal
segment; distal segment 1-seeded, globose or ovoid
, corky, terete
or 4-angled, smooth
, rugose
, or reticulate
; gynophore
absent; replum and septum obsolete
; style absent, obsolete, or rarely to 1 mm; stigma capitate, entire. Seeds wingless, oblong, pendulous on a basal funicle, plump; seed coat
smooth, not mucilaginous
when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate
.
About 35 species: Africa, Asia, Europe; one species in China.[1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Ecology:
This perennial
species is mainly found on cliffs
in pine forest
or
on cliffs and other open areas in laurisilva forest.[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 6 Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks) [more info]
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:
Brassiceae
()
- Genus:
Crambe
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Crambe
- Specific epithet:
microcarpa
- A. Santos
- Botanical name: - Crambe microcarpa A. Santos
- Specific epithet:
microcarpa
- A. Santos
- Genus:
Crambe
(
- Tribe:
Brassiceae
(
- Family:
Cruciferae
(
- Order:
Brassicales
(
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 2009
Crambe microcarpa A. Santos
is a wild relative of the oil
producing and fodder
crop
, C.
abyssinica R. E. Fr., as well as being related to other brassica
crops as a member
of the subtribe
Brassicinae (tribe
Brassiceae)
(Maxted et al.
in prep.).
[2].
Similar Species
Members of the genus Crambe
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. cordifolia (Colewort) · C. maritima (Sea Kale) · C. orientalis (Sea Kale) · C. steveniana (Fodder Crambe)
More Info
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- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
- EURISCO Catalogue. http://eurisco.ecpgr.org. (Accessed: September 2010).
- IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).
- Izquierdo, I. Martín, J.L., Zurita, N. and Arechavaleta, M. (eds.). 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias (hongos, plantas y animales terrestres) 2004. Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, Gobierno de Canarias.
- Maxted, N., Dobbie, S.L. and Kell, S.P. In prep. Global priorities for crop wild relative conservation as a means of underpinning food security.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Santos Guerra, A. 2011. Crambe microcarpa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5969299
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Mus-1124
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15263108
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:901790-1
- IUCN ID: 202433
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3191511
Footnotes
- Tai-yien Cheo, Lianli Lu, Guang Yang, Ihsan Al-Shehbaz & Vladimir Dorofeev "Crambe". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 26. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Santos Guerra, A. 2011. Crambe microcarpa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
