Cakile constricta

Rodman

Contr. Gray Herb. 205: 131. 1974.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 427. Mentioned on page 425.

Annuals. Stems erect, 1–3 dm. Cauline leaves: blade ovate to spatulate, margins crenate, dentate, or sinuate (not pinnatifid). Racemes usually 1–2 dm, rarely longer; rachis not geniculate. Fruiting pedicels 2.5–7 mm. Flowers: sepals ca. 4 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white or lavender, 5.3–8 × 1.3–2.6 mm, claw distinct. Fruits (terete or 4-angled), lanceoloid, 14–22 × 3–4 mm, (constricted at articulation of segments); proximal segment terete, long-cylindrical, (5–8.5 mm); terminal segment fusiform, (9–15 mm, beak conic), apex acute. Seeds: cotyledons accumbent. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Sandy shores
Elevation: ca. 0 m

Discussion

Cakile constricta is disjunct in Florida (not known from the Keys or southwestern Florida, where immature plants of C. lanceolata subspp. fusiformis and pseudoconstricta may be confused with it).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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James E. Rodman +
Rodman +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
not rosulate +
not +  and auriculate +
dissected +, repand +, sinuate +, crenate +  and dentate +
ovate;spatulate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
differentiated +
emarginate +  and entire +
Fla. +, La. +  and Tex. +
ca. 0 m +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
white;lavender +
ovate +  and oblong +
indehiscent +
1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br /> (2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br />) +
lanceoloid +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Sandy shores +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
dentate +  and entire +
sinuate;dentate;sinuate;dentate;crenate +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
lavender +  and white +
5.3mm;8mm +
rudimentary +
cruciform +
0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br /> (0.26 cm2.6 mm <br />0.0026 m <br />) +
Flowering spring–fall. +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
long-cylindrical +  and terete +
Contr. Gray Herb. +
not geniculate +
stout +  and slender +
not geniculate +
not distinguishable +
flattened +  and rounded +
mucilaginous +
uniseriate +  and aseriate +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
oblong +  and flattened +
8-ribbed +, 4-angled +, terete +, horned +, hastate +, lanceoloid +, fusiform +, oblong +  and obovoid +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
oblong +  and ovate +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (?) +
perforated +  and complete +
reduced +
terete +  and segmented +
terete +  and segmented +
tetradynamous +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
2-lobed +  and entire +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
Cruciferae +
Cakile constricta +
species +
scale-like +  and forked +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
not distinguishable +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
anastomosing +
glabrous +, pubescent +  and , +
rhizomatous +, taprooted +, scapose +  and not +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
subshrub +  and herb +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +