Coincya cintrana explained

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.

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]

Bibliography

• Checklist da Flora de Portugal (Continental, Açores e Madeira) - Sociedade Lusitana de Fitossociologia
• Checklist da Flora do Arquipélago da Madeira (Madeira, Porto Santo, Desertas e Selvagens) - Grupo de Botânica da Madeira

External links

• Coincya cintrana - Flora-on
• Coincya - Flora iberica
• Coincya cintrana - EUNIS
• Coincya cintrana - Biodiversity Heritage Library - Bibliography
• Coincya cintrana - ICN - Plano Sectorial da Rede Natura 2000

Notes and References

1. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=944898-1 IPNI
2. The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1 January).
3. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/100313921?tab=acceptednames Accepted names
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. http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species/2738 EUNIS