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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Cakile maritima

Citation: Scop., Fl. Carniolica edn 2, 2:35 (1772) subsp. maritima.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Two-horned sea-rocket.

Description:
Annual herb, decumbent or ascending, branches to 80 cm long; leaves succulent, petiolate, deeply pinnatifid to entire.

Inflorescence a raceme; sepals 4-5.5 mm long; petals 8-14 mm long, white to purple.

Silicula 12-27 mm long, 4-8 mm wide, somewhat hastate, articulating between the upper and lower segments; upper segment conical-hastate; lower segment obconical, expanding to 2 lateral horns.

image of FSA1_Cakile_mar.jpg Cakile maritima twig and 2 leaves
Image source: fig 210a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Hewson (1982) Fl. Aust. 8:fig. 48F.

Distribution:  Grows on the shores of the mainland and the offshore islands.

  W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Bass Strait Islands; native to Europe.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: all months.


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