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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Brassicaceae
Matthiola

Citation: R. Br., in W.T. Aiton, Hort. Kew. edn 2, 4:119 (1812).

Derivation: Named in honour of Pietro Andrea Matthioli 1500-1577, an Italian physician.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Stocks.

Description:
Annual or perennial herbs, usually hairy; sepals dimorphic; petals long-clawed.

Stamens 6, spreading; median glands absent; stigma sessile, bilobed.

Fruit a siliqua, dehiscent; valves with a mid-vein, hairy; seeds in 1 row per locule; radicle accumbent.

Distribution:  55 species from the Atlantic Islands, Europe, Central Asia and South Africa; 2 species introduced into Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:
1. Plant perennial; leaves entire; stigmatic lobes with processes to 3 mm long
M. incana 1.
1. Plant annual; leaves pinnatifid; stigmatic lobes with processes to 10 mm long
M. longipetala 2.

Author: Not yet available


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