Malcolmia R.Br.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 277

21. Malcolmia R.Br. 1

Annual to perennial herbs with branched hairs(rarely hairs oftwo kinds) branched and unbranched, or glabrescent. Sepals erect, the inner usually saccate at base; petals pink to violet, rarely white, long-clawed; median nectaries absent. Fruit a siliqua; valves 3-veined; style absent; stigma deeply 2-lobed, the lobes erect and connate. Seeds in 1 row in each loculus. (Wilckia Scop.)

1 Sepals not or only slightly saccate atbase

2 Lower pedicels 2-7 mm in fruit; siliqua 12-35 x1mm,toru- lose, terete, with appressed hairs 3. ramosissima 2 Lower pedicels 0-2 mm in fruit; siliqua usually larger,not torulose, ± 4-angled, glabrous or with patent hairs

3 Siliquadenselyhispid; stigmaacute; lowerpedicelsusually

1-2 mm in fruit 4. africana 3 Siliquawithshort,sparse,patenthairsorglabrous; stigma retuse; lower pedicels 0-1 mm in fruit 5. taraxacifolia 1 At least 2 of the sepals strongly saccate at base

4 Cauline hairs with numerous rays,usually very crowded

5 Basalleaves± sessile; siliqua30-65mm,nottorulose

1. littorea 5 Basal leaves shortly petiolate; siliqua 20-40 mm,torulose 2. lacera 4 Caulinehairswith 2 -4 rays, notcrowded

6 Calyx (8—)10—17 mm; style 5-10 mm in fruit 12. macrocalyx 6 Calyxnotmorethan10 mm; stylenotmorethan 5 mm

in fruit

7 Racemes bracteate, at least in the lower part

8 Lower leaves cordate at base; calyx with 3-to 4-fid hairs

11. angulifolia 8 Lower leaves cuneate atbase;calyxwith medifixed hairs

9 Flowers 10-15 mm; siliqua 35-60 mm (N.W. Balkan peninsula ) 9. illyrica 9 Flowers 4-10 mm; siliqua 25-35 mm (C.Italy)

10. orsiniana 7 Racemes ebracteate

10 Indumentum entirely of 3- to 4-fid hairs (each ray not more than 015 mm) 8. graeca 10 Indumentum including numerous medifixed hairs (each

ray at least 0-25 mm)

11 Style more than 1-5 mm in fruit; petals 10-25 mm; sepals 5-16 mm

12 Pedicels in fruit 0 -5-1 mm in diameter at their base, distinctly narrower thansiliqua 6. maritima 12 Pedicels in fruit 1-2-5 mm in diameter at their base, about as wide as the siliqua 7. flexuosa

11 Stylenot more than 1-5mm infruit;petals4-5-12mm; sepals3- 6 mm 13 Petalspinkorviolet;siliqua(25-)3O-7 Omm, patentor erecto-patent 13.chia 13Petalspinkwithyellowbase;siliqua 10—35(—45)mm 14 Pedicels3—5(— 8)mm infruit,almost aswide asthe siliqua;siliquastraight,rigid,erecto-patent 15. bicolor 14 Pedicels5-15mm infruit,narrowerthansiliqua; siliquacurvedandflexuous 14.hydraea