Strigosella africana (Linnaeus) Botschantzev (Q3837)

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Strigosella africana is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Strigosella
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Strigosella africana (Linnaeus) Botschantzev
Strigosella africana is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Strigosella

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    taxon/id/Strigosella africana (Linnaeus) Botschantzev
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    Strigosella africana (Linnaeus) Botschantzev
    Strigosella africana
    (Linnaeus) Botschantzev
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    malcolmie d'Afrique (French)
    African stock (English)
    African mustard (English)
    African adder's-mouth (English)
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    Europe
    n Africa
    also in South America (Argentina)
    Flowering May–Aug.
    fields
    disturbed areas
    roadsides
    deserts
    sandy flats
    vacant lots
    sagebrush
    greasewood areas
    grasslands
    railroad tracks
    shale outcrops
    alkaline flats
    juniper woodlands
    plains
    Plants usually sparsely to densely pubescent, rarely glabrescent, trichomes short-stalked, forked or subdendritic, these, sometimes, with simple, subsetiform ones.
    Stems unbranched or branched proximally, (0.4–) 1.5–3 (–5) dm, pubescent.
    Basal leaves soon withered.
    Cauline leaves petiolate or (distal) subsessile;
    petiole (0.1–) 0.6–2 (–3) cm;
    blade elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong, (0.5–) 1.5–6 (–10) cm × (3–) 10–25 (–35) mm (smaller distally), base cuneate, apex acute.
    Fruiting pedicels 0.5–2 (–4) mm.
    Flowers: sepals sometimes persistent, (3.5–) 4–5 × 0.5–0.7 mm;
    petals narrowly oblanceolate, (6.5–) 8–10 (–12) × 1–2 mm;
    filaments distinct, 2.5–5 mm;
    anthers narrowly oblong, 0.9–1.1 mm.
    Fruits divaricate-ascending, straight, (2.5–) 3.5–5.5 (–7) cm × 1–1.3 mm;
    valves usually pubescent, rarely glabrous, trichomes coarse and forked, these mixed with smaller, forked, subdendritic, or simple, subsetiform ones;
    Seeds 1–1.2 × 0.5–0.6 mm. 2n = 14, 28.