''Coincya cintrana'' is a

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

of the family

Brassicaceae Brassicaceae () or (the older) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous plants, while some are shrubs. The le ...

. It is a hemicryptophyte plant, and it grows on walls, in steep areas and in rocky slopes. It

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from April until June. The species authority is (Cout.) P.Silva, and was published in '' Bol. Soc. Brot.'' sér. 2, 60: 153. 1987. It is protected by Portuguese and European Union legislations, namely by the annex II and IV of the

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Distribution

It's an

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

species from continental

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, namely from

Serra de Sintra The Sintra Mountains ( pt, Serra de Sintra), is a mountain range in western Portugal. Its highest point is at 529 meters (1,736 ft) near Sintra. The range covers about 16 kilometers (10 mi) from the resort town of Sintra to ''(Cape R ...

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and Serra de Montejunto.

Synonyms

The Plant List lists this species as a synonym of ''

Coincya monensis ''Coincya monensis'' is a plant species in the family Brassicaceae. ''Coincya monensis'' is native to western Europe and Morocco, but has been introduced in North America. Subspecies It contains the subspecies: * ''C. monensis'' subsp. ''cheir ...

'' subsp. ''cheiranthos'' (Vill.) C.Aedo Pérez, Leadlay & Muñoz Garm. In the Tropicos database, the accepted name is also the subspecies mentioned earlier. EUNIS states that this species is a synonym of '' Rhynchosinapsis pseudoerucastrum'' subsp. ''cintrana''.EUNIS
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(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

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