3013.000 Lobularia Desv.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs, with medifixed hairs. Leaves simple, subsessile, narrowly lanceolate, entire or with distant teeth. Flowers white, sometimes purplish. Sepals not persisting in fruit. Petals entire, twice as long as sepals with circular limb. Fruit an obovate silicula; valves 1-veined pubescent. Seeds 1 under each valve, narrowly winged.

Worldwide: 4 species from Cape Verde and Canary Isles, Mediterranean to Arabia

Lobularia maritima

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maritima (L.) Desv.Description, Image

Other sources of information about Lobularia:

Flora of Zimbabwe: native/naturalised Lobularia page
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Lobularia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Lobularia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Lobularia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lobularia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Lobularia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Lobularia.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=626, retrieved 23 May 2013

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