View source for Camelina ← Camelina You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Camelina |accepted_authority=Crantz |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Stirp. Austr. Fasc. |place=1: 17. 1762 |year=1762 }} |common_names=Flaxweed;false-flax;gold-of-pleasure |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Camelineae;Camelina |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Camelineae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Camelina]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek chamai, dwarf or on the ground, and linon, flax, alluding to suppressing influence on growth of flax |volume=Volume 7 |mention_page=page 236, 240 |treatment_page=page 451 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or biennials; not scapose; pubescent, glabrescent, or glabrous, trichomes simple or short-stalked, with forked to substellate or subdendritic (smaller) ones. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched basally, branched distally, (basally hirsute with simple trichomes or sparsely pubescent with branched ones). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or subsessile; basal (often withered by flowering), rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins entire or toothed or, rarely, lobed; cauline blade (base auriculate or sagittate), margins entire, dentate to lobed, or denticulate. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit, (rachis straight, rarely strongly flexuous). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels ascending to divaricate, slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect to ascending, oblong or ovate; petals usually yellow, rarely white, oblanceolate [spatulate], (longer than sepals), claw and blade somewhat differentiated, (apex obtuse); stamens in 3 pairs of unequal length; filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse); nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen. <b>Fruits</b> silicles or, rarely, siliques, dehiscent, shortly stipitate, pyriform, obovoid, or depressed globose [linear], keeled or not, slightly latiseptate; valves each with prominent or obscure midvein, (leathery, smooth, margins of each flattened and connate, apex abruptly caudate and extending 1–2.5 mm onto, and appearing as part of, style), pubescent; replum concealed by connate margins of valves; septum complete; ovules 8–25 per ovary; stigma capitate. <b>Seeds</b> biseriate or, rarely, uniseriate, plump or slightly flattened, not winged or narrowly margined, oblong; seed coat (minutely reticulate), copiously mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent or, rarely, accumbent. <b>x</b> = 6, 7, 10, 13.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Europe;Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America;Australia. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species 8 (4 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Some authors have studied allelopathic and other effects of <i>Camelina</i> on the growth and production of flax, and the interested reader should consult I. A. Al-Shehbaz (1987) for leads. Some species, especially <i>C. sativa</i>, were cultivated for their fibers and seed oil by the Romans as early as 600 b.c., and remain in cultivation in some parts of eastern Europe and Russia.</p><!-- --><p><i>Camelina alyssum</i> and <i>C. sativa</i> may no longer be established in the United States.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=mcgregor1985a |text=McGregor, R. L. 1985. Current status of the genus Camelina (Brassicaceae) in the prairies and plants of central North America. Contr. Univ. Kansas Herb. 15: 1–13. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=tedin1925a |text=Tedin, O. 1925. Vererbung, Variation und Systematik der Gattung Camelina. Hereditas (Lund) 6: 275–386. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Fruits 3.5-7 mm, valves obscurely veined; seeds 0.8-1.5 mm; stems basally with simple trichomes (to 2.5-3.5 mm), these often mixed with branched ones |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Fruits 7-13 mm, valves prominently veined; seeds (1.5-)1.8-3 mm; stems basally glabrous or trichomes almost exclusively minute and branched, rarely trichomes simple |[[#key-0-3| > 3]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Petals pale yellow, (2.5-)3-4(-6) mm; basal leaves withered by anthesis. |[[Camelina microcarpa|Camelina microcarpa]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Petals white or creamy white, (5-)6-8(-9) mm; basal leaves persistent after anthesis. |[[Camelina rumelica|Camelina rumelica]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Fruits pyriform to broadly obovoid, 4-5(-6) mm wide, distinctly longer than wide; cauline leaf blade margins entire or denticulate. |[[Camelina sativa|Camelina sativa]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Fruits depressed globose, (5.5-)6.5-8(-9) mm wide, nearly as long as wide or slightly longer; cauline leaf blade margins coarsely dentate to lobed. |[[Camelina alyssum|Camelina alyssum]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Camelina |author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz;Mark A. Beilstein |authority=Crantz |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Brassicaceae |distribution=Europe;Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America;Australia. |introduced=true |reference=mcgregor1985a;tedin1925a |publication title=Stirp. Austr. Fasc. |publication year=1762 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_686.xml |tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Camelineae |genus=Camelina }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Brassicaceae tribe Camelineae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Brassicaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Camelina.