RAPISTRUM RUGOSUM

Family and Genus:- See- CRUCIFERAE

Common Names:- Bastard cabbage

Homotypic Synonyms:- Cakile rugosa, Cochlearia rugosa, Myagrum rugosum

Schrankia rugosa.

Meaning:- Rapistrum (L) Wild-turnip-like.

Rugosum (L) Wrinkled.

General description:- Annual, hispid below, often glabrous above.

Stem:-

1) 15-60(-100) cm.

Leaves:-

1) Lower, pinnate.

2) Upper, usually dentate, sessile to petiolate.

Flowers:-

1) Petals, pale yellow, 6-10 mm.

Fruit:-

1) Silicula, 3-10 mm.

a) upper segment, 3-6 mm (including beak), ovoid to globose, abruptly

contracted into a filiform beak 1-3(-5) mm.

b) lower segment, (0·7-)1·2-3 mm, cylindrical to ellipsoidal.

Key features:-

1) Upper segment, of the fruit abruptly contracted into a beak 1-3(-5) mm.

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Habitat:- Cultivated fields, olive groves, roadsides and ruderal habitats, occasionally

in gorges or sandy places by the coast. 0-1300 m.

Distribution:- Throughout Greece, the Mediterranean region and SW Asia. fairly

widespread on Crete.

Flowering time:- Mid-Mar to June.

Photos by:- Steve Lenton