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2884.000 Coronopus - Swine-cresses
SENEBIERA DC.
Description of the genus
Annual to perennial herbs. Leaves pinnately lobed or entire. Flowers in ebracteate racemes, which arise opposite a leaf. Petals whitish, often small or 0. Fertile stamens 2-6. Fruit a flattened 2-lobed silicula, breaking longitudinally into two 1-seeded segments. Derivation of name: Theophrastus's name, meaning crow's foot, after the leaf shape Worldwide: 10 species, almost cosmopolitan Zimbabwe: 2 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| didymus (L.) Sm. | W,C,E | Description, Image |
| integrifolius (DC.) Spreng. | N,E | Description, Image |
Key to Species
Display keyOther sources of information about Coronopus:
Our websites:
Flora of Botswana: CoronopusFlora of Mozambique: Coronopus
Flora of Zambia: Coronopus
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): CoronopusFlora Zambesiaca web site: Coronopus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Coronopus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Coronopus
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Coronopus
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