Cakile maritima Scop.

Stems 10–30 cm tall, much-branched from base, stout, glabrous, sprawling to suberect, forking, not flexuous. Rosette lvs fleshy, narrow-oblong to ovate, shallowly crenate to pinnatifid, petiolate, 4–6 × 1–2 cm; margins entire, rarely crenate or sinuate; stem lvs smaller, crenate to pinnatifid, oblong to linear to linear-spathulate. Infl. rachis straight, thickening and elongating at fruiting. Pedicels suberect to spreading, 1–3 mm long. Fls c. 1 cm diam., clustered. Petals 7–9 × 1–2 mm. Silique erect, (11)–13–16–(18) × 4–7 mm; upper segment mitre-shaped, tapering to a conic beak, acute, 4-angled, (8)–10–15 mm long; lower segment obconic, terete, 3–6 mm long, with 2 spreading to deflexed lateral horns at distal end.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Oct.–Jan.–(Feb.); Fruiting: Oct.–Jan.–(Jun.)