- Family:
- Brassicaceae Burnett
Arabis L.

[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Herbs, usually with branched or stellate hairs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves simple
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals usually white
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a siliqua; valves flat, with indistinct midvein
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds in 1 row in each cell, usually winged.
- Distribution
- About 100 species, in northern temperate regions and in subtropical to tropical montane areas.
[FTEA]
Cruciferae, Bengt Jonsell (University of Stockholm). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual, biennial or perennial small to medium-sized herbs, with a taproot and often unbranched or little branched stems
- Morphology General Indumentum
- Hairs usually present, very often stellate or otherwise branched, also simple
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Racemes terminal, ebracteate, ± corymbose, mostly with small flowers, in fruit cylindrical and elongate, dense to lax
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals not spreading, the lateral ones sometimes saccate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals white, cream, pale blue or violet, spathulate to clawed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens with linear filaments
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Nectaries
- Nectaries usually as prominent glands outside and ± around the lateral stamens, and as a smaller simple or bifid gland outside each pair of median stamens
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary narrowly cylindrical, usually with a very short style and flat stigma; ovules numerous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a siliqua, dehiscent, linear, flattened; valves thin with a fine midnerve
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds uniseriate, ovoid, finely reticulate, not mucilaginous.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, Chile Central, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, District of Columbia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Argentina South, Canary Is., Madeira
- Arabis abietina Bornm.
- Arabis aculeolata Greene
- Arabis adpressipilis (M.Hopkins) Al-Shehbaz
- Arabis alanyensis H.Duman
- Arabis allionii DC.
- Arabis alpina L.
- Arabis amplexicaulis Edgew.
- Arabis androsacea Fenzl
- Arabis armena N.Busch
- Arabis aubrietioides Boiss.
- Arabis aucheri Boiss.
- Arabis axilliflora (Jafri) H.Hara
- Arabis beirana P.Silveira, J.Paiva & N.Marcos
- Arabis bijuga Watt
- Arabis blepharophylla Hook. & Arn.
- Arabis brachycarpa Rupr.
- Arabis bryoides Boiss.
- Arabis caerulea All.
- Arabis carduchorum Boiss.
- Arabis caucasica Willd.
- Arabis ciliata Clairv.
- Arabis colchica Kolak.
- Arabis collina Ten.
- Arabis conringioides Ball
- Arabis cretica Boiss. & Heldr.
- Arabis crucisetosa Constance & Rollins
- Arabis cypria Holmboe
- Arabis davisii H.Duman & A.Duran
- Arabis deflexa Boiss.
- Arabis doberanica Parsa
- Arabis dolichothrix (N.Busch) N.Busch
- Arabis doumetii Coss.
- Arabis drabiformis Boiss.
- Arabis elgonensis Al-Shehbaz
- Arabis engleriana Muschl.
- Arabis erecta Y.Y.Kim & C.G.Jang
- Arabis erikii Mutlu
- Arabis erubescens Ball
- Arabis eschscholtziana Andrz. ex Ledeb.
- Arabis farinacea Rupr.
- Arabis flagellosa Miq.
- Arabis flaviflora Bunge
- Arabis furcata S.Watson
- Arabis gegamica Mtshkvet.
- Arabis georgiana R.M.Harper
- Arabis hirsuta (L.) Scop.
- Arabis hornungiana Schur
- Arabis huetii Trautv.
- Arabis ionocalyx Boiss. & Heldr.
- Arabis josiae Jahand. & Maire
- Arabis juressi Rothm.
- Arabis kashmiriaca Naqshi
- Arabis kaynakiae Daşkın
- Arabis kazbegi Mtshkvet.
- Arabis kennedyae Meilke
- Arabis korolkowii Regel & Schmalh.
- Arabis lycia Parolly & P.Hein
- Arabis margaritae Talavera
- Arabis mcdonaldiana Eastw.
- Arabis modesta Rollins
- Arabis mollis Steven
- Arabis nepetifolia Boiss.
- Arabis nordmanniana (Rupr.) Rupr.
- Arabis nova Vill.
- Arabis nuristanica Kitam.
- Arabis nuttallii (Kuntze) B.L.Rob.
- Arabis olympica Piper
- Arabis oregana Rollins
- Arabis ottonis-schulzii Bornm. & Gauba
- Arabis × palezieuxii Beauverd
- Arabis paniculata Franch.
- Arabis parvula Dufour ex DC.
- Arabis patens Sull.
- Arabis planisiliqua (Pers.) Rchb.
- Arabis pleurantha Phil.
- Arabis procurrens Waldst. & Kit.
- Arabis pterosperma Edgew.
- Arabis pubescens (Desf.) Poir.
- Arabis pumila Jacq.
- Arabis purpurea Sm.
- Arabis pycnocarpa M.Hopkins
- Arabis quinqueloba O.E.Schulz
- Arabis recta Vill.
- Arabis rimarum Rech.f.
- Arabis rosea DC.
- Arabis sagittata (Bertol.) DC.
- Arabis scabra All.
- Arabis scopoliana Boiss.
- Arabis serpillifolia Vill.
- Arabis serrata Franch. & Sav.
- Arabis soyeri Reut. & A.L.P.Huet
- Arabis stelleri DC.
- Arabis stellulata Desv. & Berthel.
- Arabis stenocarpa Boiss. & Reut.
- Arabis steveniana Rupr.
- Arabis subdecumbens Emb. & Maire
- Arabis subflava B.M.G.Jones
- Arabis tanakana Makino
- Arabis tianschanica Pavlov
- Arabis tunetana Murb.
- Arabis verdieri Quézel
- Arabis verna (L.) W.T.Aiton
- Arabis watsonii (P.H.Davis) F.K.Mey.
Arabis L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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s.coll. [s.n.], Chile | K000485153 | Yes |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 664 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 298 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 664 (1753)
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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