Malcolmia maritima

Malcolmia maritima

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brassicales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids II Ordo: Brassicales

Familia: Brassicaceae
Subfamilia: Brassicoideae
Tribus: Malcolmieae
Genus: Malcolmia
Species: Malcolmia maritima

Name

Malcolmia maritima (L.) W.T.Aiton, Hortus Kew. 4: 121 (1812).

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Cheiranthus maritimus L., Cent. Pl. I: 19 (1755).
• Homotypic
  • Crucifera malcolmia E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 6: 119 (1902).
  • Hesperis maritima (L.) Lam., Fl. Franç. 2: 504 (1779).
  • Wilckia maritima (L.) Scop., Intr. Hist. Nat.: 317 (1777).
• Heterotypic
  • Cheiranthus littoreus All., Fl. Pedem. 1: 273 (1785), nom. illeg.
  • Malcolmia maritima alba Van Houtte ex T.Moore, Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 1: 320 (1860).
  • Malcolmia maritima var. leucadiana Stork, Opera Bot. 33: 29 (1972).
  • Malcolmia maritima f. ramosa (Beck) V.Nikolić, Fl. SR Srbije 9: 76 (1977).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Europe Southeastern Europe Albania, Greece. Introduced into: Algeria, Argentina South, Austria, Baleares, Canary Is., Corse, Czechoslovakia, France, Iraq, Italy, Madeira, Morocco, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, former Yugoslavia. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Additional references

• Tutin, T.G., Burges, N.A., Chater, A.O., Edmondson, J.R., Heywood, V.H., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (eds.) 1993. Flora Europaea. Volume 1: Psilotaceae to Platanaceae. 2nd edition, xlvi + 581 pp., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK) / New York / Melbourne, ISBN 0-521-41007-X. Reference page. 

Links

• Koch, M.A. et al. 2023. Malcolmia maritima in BrassiBase Tools and biological resources to study characters and traits in the Brassicaceae. Published online. Accessed: 2023 April 18.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Malcolmia maritima in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 April 18. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2023. Malcolmia maritima. Published online. Accessed: April 18 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Malcolmia maritima. Accessed: 18 April 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. Malcolmia maritima. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2023. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2023 April 18. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Virginia stock
español: alhelí de Mahón, mahonesa
suomi: Merimalkolmia

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