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Cakile geniculata
(B.L. Rob.) Millsp.
Family:
Brassicaceae
Gulf Searocket
FNA
Resources
James E. Rodman in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals. Stems
erect, (sometimes suffrutescent, much-branched), to 10 dm.
Cauline leaves:
blade broadly ovate or spatulate, margins sinuate, dentate, or pinnately lobed.
Racemes:
1-2 dm; rachis geniculate.
Fruiting pedicels
(rachis of equal width), 2-5 mm, (widely spaced).
Flowers:
sepals 3-4 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white to pale lavender, 4-6.1 × 1.2-1.9 mm, claw distinct.
Fruits
(8-ribbed), lanceoloid, 20-27 × 3-5 mm; proximal segment terete, (6-11 mm); terminal segment slenderly conical, (13-18 mm), apex acute to blunt, (often slightly curved).
Seeds:
cotyledons accumbent to obliquely incumbent.
2
n
= 18.
Flowering year-round (peak Mar-Aug). Sandy beaches; ca. 0 m; La., Tex.; Mexico (Tamaulipas, Veracruz).
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