Matthiola W.T.Aiton

[FTEA]

Cruciferae, Bengt Jonsell (University of Stockholm). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982

Morphology General Habit: Annual herbs to subshrubs, ± branched, with often dense greyish or whitish tomentum of branched and sometimes also glandular hairs
Morphology Leaves: Leaves undivided to pinnatifid
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences: Racemes ebracteate, with rather few showy flowers, elongate in fruit
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx: Sepals erect, the inner saccate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla: Petals purplish, violet or sordid white, distinctly clawed
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens: Stamens 6, distinctly tetradynamous; filaments free, the median dilated, the lateral linear; anthers acuminate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Nectaries: Nectaries as prominent horseshoe-shaped glands outside each lateral stamen-base, often continuing outside the base of the median stamens (sometimes forming a ring)
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil: Ovary linear; stigma practically sessile, conoidal with decurrent narrow lobes, bifid; ovules numerous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits: Fruit a siliqua, linear, terete or dorso-ventrally compressed, sometimes torulose, without transverse septa; style often 2-horned
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds: Seeds uniseriate, suborbicular, compressed, often winged.

[FSOM]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit: Annual herbs to subshrubs with branched and glandular hairs
Morphology Leaves: Leaves undivided to pinnatisect
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences: Racemes ebracteate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx: Sepals erect, inner saccate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers: Flowers large with pink to purple petals
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits: Fruit a siliqua without tranverse septa; valves rather thin; style often two-horned
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds: Seeds uniseriate, compressed.
Distribution: Some 50–60 species, mostly in the East Mediterranean and Iranian areas.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia

Extinct in:

Ireland

Introduced into:

Alberta, Argentina South, Arizona, Azores, Bermuda, Bolivia, California, Caroline Is., Chile North, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, Illinois, Juan Fernández Is., Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Norfolk Is., Ontario, Peru, Romania, Saskatchewan, South Australia, Texas, Victoria, Western Australia