Ornithocarpa fimbriata
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Ornithocarpa fimbriata is one of only two Mexican plant species of the genus Ornithocarpa in the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae).
description
Ornithocarpa fimbriata is an annual , herbaceous , hairless plant with a stature height of 60 to 90 centimeters, which is found in aquatic habitats with shallow water areas. The simple and almost simple stalk bears fiederteilig composite leaves with strongly serrated to split leaflets .
The white, hermaphrodite, four-fold flowers are elongated, racemose , 10 to 30 centimeters long inflorescences . The stylus is 6 millimeters long; the two-chambered ovary and the pods with a long, horn-like appendage are hairless.
Systematics
Ornithocarpa fimbriata was published in 1905 by Joseph Nelson Rose in Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants - No. 4 first described . The holotype on which the description is based was collected on August 19, 1902 by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle east of Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco . Ornithocarpa fimbriata is in the genus Ornithocarpa and the tribe Cardamineae within the family of the cruciferous plants (Brassicaceae).
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literature
- JN Rose: Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants - No. 4 . Brassicaceae. A new genus, ornithocarpa . In: Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum (Ed.): Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . tape VIII , no. 4 . United States Government Printing Office , Washington 1905, p. 292 to 293 (English, online [accessed on March 26, 2011] digitized by scanning documents at the Biodiversity Heritage Library).
Web links
- Ornithocarpa fimbriata Rose. In: Digital herbarium. Free University of Berlin / Botanical Garden and Museum Berlin-Dahlem, accessed on March 25, 2011 (illustration of the herbarium evidence).