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Seed structure and the taxonomy on the Cruciferae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society<\/em>, 64: 383-409.","custom_author":"H. S\u00e1inz, J.F. Mota & F.J. P\u00e9rez Garc\u00eda.","genuses":{"11383":{"short_name":"Diceratella","name_html":"Diceratella<\/strong> Boiss.","short_description":"","references":"","custom_author":"H. Sainz.","family":{"ID":"10887","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:17","post_content":"Large family of about 354 genera and about 4,060 species; some are shrubby species but most are herbaceous, distributed mainly through temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In North Africa there are 81 genera, among which only 8-9 are composed in part or entirely by shrubs or subshrubs. 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Branches divaricate, intricate, hardened and persistent for several years. Young stems and leaves covered with a dense velvety indumentum, of stellate hairs, dichotomously branched, with 25-35 radii. Floral stems numerous, rigid, zigzagging, with all secondary shoots transformed into short spines or erect secondary inflorescences; sterile branches never spiny. Leaves of floral stems oblong-linear, 5-10(15) \u00d7 1-2 mm, late caducous, borne on the axils of secondary branchlets transformed into spines or secondary flower racemes. Leaves of sterile branches larger, 8-18(24) \u00d7 1.5-4(7) mm, oblong-lanceolate, with leaf blade slightly attenuated in the base. Flowers in corymbiform racemes, pauciflorous, that become slightly longer (up to 2.3 cm) after flowering. Petals white or pink 3.5-6 \u00d7 1.3-2 mm. Ovary with 2 primordia per locule. 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It extends through the mountains and dry plateaus of Morocco (Saharan Atlas and High Atlas) and Algeria (western and central portion of the plateau that separates the Tellian and Saharan Atlas, as well as in the latter range). It is a common species although of limited distribution. 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It presents foliar dimorphism, with leaves of the fertile stems very narrow and ending in a tip (linear-subulate), while on sterile stems the leaves are wider and obtuse. Inflorescence in a rather narrow elongated panicle which becomes corymbiform during anthesis, very dense and showy during flowering, although the flowers are tiny. Sepals 1-1.2 mm long, ovate-elliptic, with whitish margin. Petals white, c. <\/em>2 mm long. Fruits also small (2.5 \u00d7 2 mm), ovate and with small wings. 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Leaves glabrous, glaucous, often fleshy. Basal leaves obovate, obtuse at the apex, with \u00b1 cordate base, and sometimes forming a rosette on the first years; cauline leaves crenate to entire, amplexicaul, with acute or obtuse apex. Flowers in racemes of 10-20 flowers, with straight axes, not flexuous. Sepals linear, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, the lateral sepals clearly gibbous at the base. Petals large, 21-29 mm, light pink or lilac, often faded, rarely whitish. The faded or white colour of the petals seem be related to the level of water or heat stress. Fruits in siliques, long linear, 30-60(100) \u00d7 2.3 mm, straight, laterally compressed, erect or erect-patent. Seeds 1.2 \u00d7 0.8 mm, biseriate, ellipsoid, flattened, wingless and brown.","post_title":"Moricandia arvensis (L.) 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Usually it is a herbaceous species but some of its infraspecific taxa or \"microspecies\" have a clearly woody stems at the base.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:36","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:36","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"moricandia-dc-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 08:18:16","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 08:18:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/moricandia-dc-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11398},"11395":{"short_name":"Vella","name_html":"Vella<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Fern\u00e1ndez Casas, J. 1982. De flora occidentale. Fontqueria<\/em>, 1: 9-12.\r\n\r\nG\u00f3mez-Campo, C. 1981. Taxonomic and evolutionary relationship in the genus Vella<\/em> L. (Cruciferae<\/em>). 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