SPECIES DESCRIPTION
ARABIS AURICULATA
Family and Genus:- See- CRUCIFERAE
Common Names:- Annual rock-cress
Homotypic Synonyms:- Crucifera auriculata, Erysimum auriculatum.
Turrita auriculata, Turritis auriculata.
Meaning:- Arabis (L) Arabian.
Auriculata (L) Lobed ear-like, with lobes.
General description:- Often biennial.
Stems:-
1) 20-50 cm, unbranched or branched above; pubescent, the hairs 2- to 5-fid.
Leaves:-
1) Basal, petiolate, ovate or obovate, entire.
2) Cauline, 10-40 mm, sessile, auriculate, ovate to lance-shaped, acute.
Flowers:-
1) Flowers 7-40.
2) Pedicels up to 5 mm at anthesis.
3) Petals 4-6 mm, white.
4) infructescence straight, flexuous.
5) Style 0·5-1 mm.
Fruit:-
1) Siliqua 25-70 x 1·5 mm, glabrous to puberulent, patent.
2) Seeds 1·2-1·5 mm, narrowly winged.
Habitat:- Rocky slopes and ridges, stony pastures in openings of coniferous forest,
screes, on various substrates. (400-)1000-2300 m.
Distribution:- Pyrenees, Alps, Jura and Balkan peninsula. On Crete occurs in the
three main massiffs, but not common.
Flowering time:- Late Apr to June.
Photos by:- Fotis Samaritakis
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Canary Is., Madeira
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Canary Is., Madeira
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
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