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 = L. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text }}

'''''Crambe''''' is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to a variety of habitats in Europe, Turkey, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. They carry dense racemes 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 larvae 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= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=9 November 2020 }}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=24em}} *''Crambe alutacea'' Hand.-Mazz. *''Crambe arborea'' Webb ex Christ *''Crambe armena'' N.Busch *''Crambe cordifolia'' Steven *''Crambe edentula'' Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Korsh. *''Crambe feuilleei'' A.Santos ex Prina & Mart.-Laborde *''Crambe filiformis'' Jacq. *''Crambe fruticosa'' L.f. *''Crambe gigantea'' (Ceballos & Ortuño) Bramwell *''Crambe gomeraea'' Webb ex Christ *''Crambe gordjagini'' Sprygin & Popov *''Crambe grandiflora'' DC. *''Crambe grossheimii'' I.I.Khalilov *''Crambe hedgei'' I.I.Khalilov *''Crambe hispanica'' L. *''Crambe juncea'' M.Bieb. *''Crambe kilimandscharica'' O.E.Schulz *''Crambe koktebelica'' (Junge) N.Busch *''Crambe kralikii'' Coss. *''Crambe laevigata'' DC. ex Christ *''Crambe maritima'' L. *''Crambe microcarpa'' A.Santos *''Crambe orientalis'' L. *''Crambe pinnatifida'' W.T.Aiton *''Crambe pritzelii'' Bolle *''Crambe scaberrima'' Webb ex Bramwell *''Crambe schugnana'' Korsh. *''Crambe scoparia'' Svent. *''Crambe sinuatodentata'' Hochst. & G.W.Schimp. *''Crambe steveniana'' Rupr. *''Crambe strigosa'' L'Hér. *''Crambe sventenii'' Pett. ex Bramwell & Sunding *''Crambe tamadabensis'' Prina & Marrero Rodr. *''Crambe tataria'' Sebeók *''Crambe × tchalenkoae'' Popovich & Zernov *''Crambe wildpretii'' Prina & Bramwell {{div col end}}

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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Crambe (Brassicaceae)|''Crambe''}}

Category:Brassicaceae genera