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Genus: Matthiola (stocks)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Rosids > Eurosid II > Order: Brassicales > Family: Brassicaceae

About 55 species, native to Macronesia, western Europe, the Mediterranean region and also southern Africa where there is one native species. In addition, two species have become naturalised, and a further two are cultivated, in southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Matthiola torulosa

 

Species naturalised in southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Matthiola bicornis

 

Matthiola incana

 

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Matthiola incana (Brompton stocks)

Native to the Mediterranean region.

 

Matthiola longipetala (Night-scented stocks)

Native from Greece to south-western Asia.

 

Links

Publications

  • Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.