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Crambe
Crambe is a genus of about 20 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the cabbage family Brassicaceae, native to a variety of habitats in Europe, Turkey, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. They carry dense racemes of tiny white or yellow flowers on (mostly leafless) stems above the basal leaves.
31 branches of this genus, most-observed first

sea kale
speciesCrambe maritima
Tartar breadplant
speciesCrambe tataria

Crambe strigosa
speciesCrambe strigosa

Abyssinian Kale
speciesCrambe hispanica

Oriental Sea-kale
speciesCrambe orientalis

Crambe aspera
speciesCrambe aspera

Greater Sea-kale
speciesCrambe cordifolia

Crambe koktebelica
speciesCrambe koktebelica

Crambe fruticosa
speciesCrambe fruticosa

Crambe filiformis
speciesCrambe filiformis

Crambe scaberrima
speciesCrambe scaberrima

Crambe pritzelii
speciesCrambe pritzelii

Crambe pinnatifida
speciesCrambe pinnatifida

Crambe santosii
speciesCrambe santosii

Crambe kralikii
speciesCrambe kralikii

Crambe edentula
speciesCrambe edentula

Crambe gomeraea
speciesCrambe gomeraea

Crambe arborea
speciesCrambe arborea

Crambe steveniana
speciesCrambe steveniana

Crambe laevigata
speciesCrambe laevigata

Crambe grandiflora
speciesCrambe grandiflora

Crambe sventenii
speciesCrambe sventenii

Crambe feuilleei
speciesCrambe feuilleei

Crambe tamadabensis
speciesCrambe tamadabensis

Crambe juncea
speciesCrambe juncea

Crambe alutacea
speciesCrambe alutacea

Crambe microcarpa
speciesCrambe microcarpa

Crambe scoparia
speciesCrambe scoparia
Crambe armena
speciesCrambe armena

Crambe wildpretii
speciesCrambe wildpretii
Crambe kilimandscharica
speciesCrambe kilimandscharica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.478

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.476

On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.665

De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.673

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.816

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.731

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1471

Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1544

A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.102

Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.669

Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.236

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.180
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55400.