- Family:
- Brassicaceae Burnett
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, Primorye, Romania, Saskatchewan, South Australia, Texas, Victoria, Western Australia
- Matthiola afghanica Rech.f. & Köie
- Matthiola anchoniifolia Hub.-Mor.
- Matthiola arabica Boiss.
- Matthiola aspera Boiss.
- Matthiola boissieri Grossh.
- Matthiola bolleana Webb ex Christ
- Matthiola bucharica Czerniak.
- Matthiola caspica (N.Busch) Grossh.
- Matthiola chenopodiifolia Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Matthiola chorassanica Bunge ex Boiss.
- Matthiola codringtonii Rech.f.
- Matthiola crassifolia Boiss. & Gaill.
- Matthiola czerniakowskae Botsch. & Vved.
- Matthiola daghestanica (Conti) N.Busch
- Matthiola damascena Boiss.
- Matthiola dumulosa Boiss. & Buhse
- Matthiola erlangeriana Engl.
- Matthiola farinosa Bunge ex Boiss.
- Matthiola flavida Boiss.
- Matthiola fragrans (Fisch.) Bunge
- Matthiola fruticulosa (L.) Maire
- Matthiola ghorana Rech.f.
- Matthiola glutinosa Jafri
- Matthiola graminea Rech.f.
- Matthiola incana (L.) W.T.Aiton
- Matthiola integrifolia Kom.
- Matthiola kralikii Pomel
- Matthiola longipetala (Vent.) DC.
- Matthiola lunata DC.
- Matthiola macranica Rech.f.
- Matthiola maderensis Lowe
- Matthiola maroccana Coss.
- Matthiola montana Boiss.
- Matthiola obovata Bunge
- Matthiola odoratissima (M.Bieb.) W.T.Aiton
- Matthiola parviflora (Schousb.) W.T.Aiton
- Matthiola perennis Conti
- Matthiola perpusilla Rech.f.
- Matthiola puntensis Hedge & A.G.Mill.
- Matthiola revoluta Bunge ex Boiss.
- Matthiola robusta Bunge
- Matthiola scapifera Humbert
- Matthiola shehbazii Ranjbar & Karami
- Matthiola shiraziana Zeraatkar, Khosravi, F.Ghahrem., Al-Shehbaz & Assadi
- Matthiola sinuata (L.) W.T.Aiton
- Matthiola spathulata Conti
- Matthiola stoddartii Bunge
- Matthiola superba Conti
- Matthiola tatarica (Pall.) DC.
- Matthiola taurica (Conti) Grossh.
- Matthiola tianschanica Sarkisova
- Matthiola tomentosa Bél.
- Matthiola torulosa (Thunb.) DC.
- Matthiola tricuspidata (L.) W.T.Aiton
- Matthiola trojana Dirmenci, Satil & Tümen
Matthiola W.T.Aiton appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Hortus Kew. 4: 119 (1812)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by B. Jonsell [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Conti in Mém. Herb. Boiss. 18: 1–88 (1900), nom. conserv.
- in Ait., Hort. Kew., ed. 2, 4: 119 (1812)
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0