Cakile lanceolata subsp. pseudoconstricta
Cakile lanceolata
coastal searocket
coastal searocket
erect to prostrate, (much-branched), often 5+ dm.
blade margins deeply pinnatifid.
(shortly petiolate or sessile);
blade broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, or (distal) oblanceolate, (not especially fleshy, smaller distally), margins entire, dentate, or pinnatisect.
often 3+ dm;
rachis straight.
sepals 3.5–5 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;
petals usually white, rarely lavender, 4.9–9.4 × 3–4.5 mm, claw distinct.
1.5–4 mm.
(slenderly) lanceoloid, 15–24 mm, constricted at articulation, (weakly 4-angled or terete);
terminal segment less than 2 times length of proximal, apex acute.
(weakly 4-angled to terete, striate or sulcate), fusiform or lanceoloid [turbinate], 15–31 × 3–4 mm;
proximal segment terete, (5–10 mm);
terminal segment slenderly conical, (9–18 mm), apex usually acute.
cotyledons accumbent or, occasionally, incumbent.
Cakile lanceolata subsp. pseudoconstricta
Cakile lanceolata
Subspecies lanceolata in Texas and Mexico are suspected to be introduced from ballast and naturalized locally, sometimes occurring with Cakile geniculata.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Subspecies 4 (3 in the flora).
Subspecies alacranensis is known from the Yucatán Peninsula.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Fruits lanceoloid, apex not tapering abruptly, terminal segment at least 2 times length of proximal segment; leaf blades: margins usually sinuately or crenately lobed, rarely pinnatisect. | subsp. lanceolata |
1. Fruits fusiform or lanceoloid, apex tapering abruptly, terminal segment less than 2 times length of proximal segment; leaf blades: margins pinnatifid or entire | → 2 |
2. Fruits fusiform, not constricted at articulation, 4- or 8-sulcate. | subsp. fusiformis |
2. Fruits lanceoloid, usually constricted at articulation, weakly 4-angled or terete. | subsp. pseudoconstricta |
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