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Caulanthus anceps
Caulanthus anceps
Payson
Family:
Brassicaceae
Royal Wild Cabbage
FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals;
sparsely to densely hirsute.
Stems
erect, unbranched or branched distally (or, rarely, basally), 3.5-15 dm, at least sparsely hirsute basally.
Basal leaves
soon withered.
Cauline leaves
petiolate (median 0.4-3 cm); blade lanceolate to oblong, 1.5-9.5 cm × 3-30 mm (smaller distally), margins denticulate to subentire (proximal blade margins dentate).
Racemes
without a terminal cluster of sterile flowers, (considerably elongated in fruit).
Fruiting pedicels
ascending to strongly reflexed (slender or thickened), 3-10 mm.
Flowers:
sepals spreading, oblong, 3.5-5.5 × 1-1.7 mm; petals (spreading), white to lavender, 4-8 × 2-4 mm, not channeled or crisped, claw undifferentiated from blade; filaments (spreading), subequal, 3.5-5 mm; anthers narrowly oblong, equal, 1.5-2 mm, (coiled after dehiscence).
Fruits
erect or reflexed, (straight), terete, 3-6.7 cm × 1.2-2 mm; valves each with prominent midvein, (usually glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent); ovules 40-54 per ovary; style (subconical or cylindrical), 1-4 mm; stigma subentire.
Seeds
(brown), 1.4-1.8 × 1-1.3 mm.
2
n
= 28.
Flowering Mar-May. Grassy slopes, open flats, roadsides, fields, hillsides; 300-1700 m; Calif.
Caulanthus anceps
is distributed in Kern, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties.
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