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.IPNI
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.The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1 January). In the Tropicos database, the accepted name is also the subspecies mentioned earlier.Accepted names - TropicosWarwick, S. I., A. Francis & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2006. Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-Rom. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259: 249–258.
EUNIS states that this species is a synonym of Rhynchosinapsis pseudoerucastrum subsp. cintrana.EUNIS
References
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