Coincya cintrana

Coincya cintrana is a flowering plant of the family Brassicaceae. It is a hemicryptophyte plant, and it grows on walls, in steep areas and in rocky slopes. It flowers from April until June.

Coincya cintrana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Coincya
Species:
C. cintrana
Binomial name
Coincya cintrana
(Cout.) P.Silva

The species authority is (Cout.) P.Silva, and was published in Bol. Soc. Brot. sér. 2, 60: 153. 1987.[1]

It is protected by Portuguese and European Union legislations, namely by the annex II and IV of the Habitats Directive.

Distribution

It's an endemic species from continental Portugal, namely from Serra de Sintra, Serra de Santo António and Serra de Montejunto.

Synonyms

The Plant List lists this species as a synonym of Coincya monensis subsp. cheiranthos (Vill.) C.Aedo Pérez, Leadlay & Muñoz Garm.[2] In the Tropicos database, the accepted name is also the subspecies mentioned earlier.[3][4]

EUNIS states that this species is a synonym of Rhynchosinapsis pseudoerucastrum subsp. cintrana.[5]

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References
  1. IPNI
  2. The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1 January).
  3. Accepted names - Tropicos
  4. Warwick, S. I., A. Francis & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2006. Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-Rom. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259: 249–258.
  5. EUNIS

Bibliography
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