Sarcocapnos DC.
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Plazi |
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11. Sarcocapnos DC. View in CoL 1
Caespitose, perennial herbs with entire or 1-3 times ternatisect or pinnatisect leaves. Flowers white, yellow or pale pink, in short corymb-like racemes with long, slender pedicels. Upper petal spurred or gibbous. Fruit ovate, compressed, indéhiscent, usually 2-seeded; valves 3-veined.
All species are chasmophytes growing in rock-crevices, on walls, etc.
Literature: V. H. Heywood, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Bot.) 1 (4): 90-2 (1954).
1 Flowers spurred
2 Flowers 8—10(—15) mm; sepals ovate; leaves 2-3 times ternatisect or pinnatisect 1. enneaphylla
2 Flowers 15-20 mm; sepals ovate-lanceolate; leaves 1 - or sometimes 2-ternatisect or ± simple 2. crassifolia
1 Flowers not spurred
3 Leaves simple, fleshy 3. integrifolia
3 Leavesternatisect,± thin 4. baetica
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