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|accepted_name=Crambe
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 671. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 301. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Sea-cabbage
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae;Crambe
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Crambe]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek krambe, cabbage
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 225, 232, 238
|treatment_page=page 430
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[annuals, subshrubs]; not scapose; (glaucous), usually glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate; basal rosulate, blade (base not auriculate), margins sinuate-dentate to shallowly lobed, or subpinnatifid and coarsely dentate, [lyrate-pinnatipartite, pinnatisect, less frequently undivided]; cauline blade margins sinuate-dentate to lobed, less divided than basal. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, several-flowered, often in panicles), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels suberect to divaricate-ascending, [erect, divaricate], stout [slender]. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals spreading to ascending, ovate [oblong], lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white, cream, or yellow, obovate or oblong, claw differentiated from blade, (much shorter than sepal); stamens tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally, (lateral filiform, median (inner) winged and/or toothed, rarely filiform and not toothed); anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse); gynophore absent; nectar glands (4), distinct, median glands present. <b>Fruits</b> silicles, nutlike, indehiscent, segments 2, smooth, terete or 4-angled; (proximal segment stalklike, seedless, much shorter than terminal; terminal segment caducous, 1 (or 2)-seeded, subglobose to ovoid [globose], corky, rugose, or reticulate); replum and septum obsolete; ovules 2 per ovary; (style 0(–1) mm); stigma capitate, entire. <b>Seeds</b> aseriate, plump, not winged, globose, ellipsoid, or ovoid [oblong], (pendulous on basal funicle); seed coat (smooth), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Oreg.;c Europe to w Asia (Mediterranean region);n Africa;Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands).
|discussion=<p>Species 35 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Crambe
|author=Suzanne I. Warwick
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Oreg.;c Europe to w Asia (Mediterranean region);n Africa;Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae
|genus=Crambe
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