2.
Cakile lanceolata
(Willdenow) O. E. Schulz in I. Urban, Symb. Antill. 3: 504. 1903.
Raphanus lanceolatus
Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 3: 562. 1800
Annuals,
(usually sprawling).
Stems
erect to prostrate, (much-branched), often 5+ dm.
Cauline leaves
(shortly petiolate or sessile); blade broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, or (distal) oblanceolate, (not especially fleshy, smaller distally), margins entire, dentate, or pinnatisect.
Racemes
often 3+ dm; rachis straight.
Fruiting pedicels
1.5-4 mm.
Flowers:
sepals 3.5-5 mm, lateral pair saccate basally; petals usually white, rarely lavender, 4.9-9.4 × 3-4.5 mm, claw distinct.
Fruits
(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.
Seeds:
cotyledons accumbent or, occasionally, incumbent.
Subspecies 4 (3 in the flora): s United States, Mexico, West Indies, Central America.
