Cakile Miller (Q3627)

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Cakile is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Brassiceae
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Cakile Miller
Cakile is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Brassiceae

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    Cakile Miller
    Cakile
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Sea-rockets (English)
    North America
    Mexico
    West Indies
    Central America
    Europe
    Asia (Near East)
    n Africa
    in e Asia (Japan)
    Australia
    Stems erect, ascending, prostrate, or divaricate, branched basally.
    usually petiolate, rarely sessile;
    blade (often fleshy), not rosulate, margins entire, crenate, dentate, sinuate, or pinnately lobed.
    Fruiting pedicels (rachis) geniculate or not, slender or stout.
    Flowers: sepals erect, ovate or oblong, lateral pair saccate or not basally;
    petals (rarely aborted, reflexed), white to lavender, obovate to spatulate, claw differentiated from blade or not;
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers (introrse), ovate to oblong;
    nectar glands (4), distinct, median glands present.
    Fruits siliques or silicles, indehiscent, stipitate, segments 2, (fleshy and green becoming corky and dry), obovoid, oblong, fusiform, or lanceoloid, rarely hastate, (proximal segment) terete or laterally horned, (terminal segment) terete, 4-angled, or 8-ribbed;
    valves and replum not distinguishable;
    stigma entire or slightly 2-lobed.
    Seeds aseriate or uniseriate, plump or flattened, not winged, (brown), oblong;
    seed-coat (smooth), not mucilaginous when wetted;