Editing Crambe

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{About|the plant genus|the English village|Crambe, North Yorkshire|other uses|Crambe (disambiguation)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Crambe_Maritima_Estonia.jpg
|image_caption = ''Crambe maritima'' in [[Estonia]]
|taxon = Crambe
|authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
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'''''Crambe''''' is a [[genus]] of [[annual plant|annual]] and [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[flowering plant]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] Brassicaceae, [[native plant|native]] to a variety of habitats in Europe, Turkey, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. They carry dense [[raceme]]s of tiny white or yellow flowers on (mostly leafless) stems above the basal leaves.<ref>{{cite book|title=RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants|year=2008|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-1405332965|pages=1136}}</ref> ''Crambe hispanica'' subsp. ''abyssinica'', formerly known as ''[[Crambe abyssinica]]'', is grown for the oil from the seeds that has characteristics similar to [[whale oil]].

The word "crambe" derives, via the Latin ''crambe'', from the Greek ''κράμβη'', a kind of cabbage.<ref>{{cite book|title=Shorter Oxford English dictionary, 6th ed.|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-0199206872|pages=3804}}</ref>

''Crambe'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of the weevil ''[[Lixus canescens]]'' ([[Coleoptera]])<ref>''Skuhrovec, J. & Volovnik, S.'' (2015) Biology and morphology of immature stages of ''Lixus canescens'' (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae). Zootaxa, 4033(3): 350-362.</ref> and some [[Lepidoptera]] species including the [[lime-speck pug]].

==Species==
Currently accepted species include:<ref name = "12477-1" >{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12477-1 |title=''Crambe'' L. |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=9 November 2020 }}</ref>
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*''[[Crambe alutacea]]'' <small>Hand.-Mazz.</small>
*''[[Crambe arborea]]'' <small>Webb ex Christ</small>
*''[[Crambe armena]]'' <small>N.Busch</small>
*''[[Crambe cordifolia]]'' <small>Steven</small>
*''[[Crambe edentula]]'' <small>Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Korsh.</small>
*''[[Crambe feuilleei]]'' <small>A.Santos ex Prina & Mart.-Laborde</small>
*''[[Crambe filiformis]]'' <small>Jacq.</small>
*''[[Crambe fruticosa]]'' <small>L.f.</small>
*''[[Crambe gigantea]]'' <small>(Ceballos & Ortuño) Bramwell</small>
*''[[Crambe gomeraea]]'' <small>Webb ex Christ</small>
*''[[Crambe gordjagini]]'' <small>Sprygin & Popov</small>
*''[[Crambe grandiflora]]'' <small>DC.</small>
*''[[Crambe grossheimii]]'' <small>I.I.Khalilov</small>
*''[[Crambe hedgei]]'' <small>I.I.Khalilov</small>
*''[[Crambe hispanica]]'' <small>L.</small>
*''[[Crambe juncea]]'' <small>M.Bieb.</small>
*''[[Crambe kilimandscharica]]'' <small>O.E.Schulz</small>
*''[[Crambe koktebelica]]'' <small>(Junge) N.Busch</small>
*''[[Crambe kralikii]]'' <small>Coss.</small>
*''[[Crambe laevigata]]'' <small>DC. ex Christ</small>
*''[[Crambe maritima]]'' <small>L.</small>
*''[[Crambe microcarpa]]'' <small>A.Santos</small>
*''[[Crambe orientalis]]'' <small>L.</small>
*''[[Crambe pinnatifida]]'' <small>W.T.Aiton</small>
*''[[Crambe pritzelii]]'' <small>Bolle</small>
*''[[Crambe scaberrima]]'' <small>Webb ex Bramwell</small>
*''[[Crambe schugnana]]'' <small>Korsh.</small>
*''[[Crambe scoparia]]'' <small>Svent.</small>
*''[[Crambe sinuatodentata]]'' <small>Hochst. & G.W.Schimp.</small>
*''[[Crambe steveniana]]'' <small>Rupr.</small>
*''[[Crambe strigosa]]'' <small>L'Hér.</small>
*''[[Crambe sventenii]]'' <small>Pett. ex Bramwell & Sunding</small>
*''[[Crambe tamadabensis]]'' <small>Prina & Marrero Rodr.</small>
*''[[Crambe tataria]]'' <small>Sebeók</small>
*''[[Crambe × tchalenkoae]]'' <small>Popovich & Zernov</small>
*''[[Crambe wildpretii]]'' <small>Prina & Bramwell</small>
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==References==
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==External links==
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