Anelsonia J.F.Macbr. & Payson

Anelsonia (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae

Characteristics

Perennials; (cespitose, deep-rooted); scapose; pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, dendritic or irregularly forked, (soft). Stems erect, unbranched. Leaves (persistent) basal; rosulate; petiolate; blade margins entire. Racemes (corymbose, few-to several-flowered), not or slightly elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels ascending to suberect, slender. Flowers: sepals (early caducous, erect), oblong, (pubescent), base of lateral pair not saccate; petals white to purplish, oblanceolate, (slightly longer than sepals); stamens tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate; nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens. Fruits (erect, siliques or silicles), sessile or short-stipitate, lanceolate, broadly oblong to narrowly ovate, not torulose, latiseptate; valves each with prominent midvein and somewhat anastomosing lateral veins, glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 10-24 per ovary; stigma capitate. Seeds biseriate, somewhat flattened, not winged, oblong to ovoid; seed coat (silvery, papillate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent. x = 7.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Distribution

Anelsonia world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296589-2
WFO ID wfo-4000002036
COL ID VX5
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Anelsonia

Lower taxons

Anelsonia eurycarpa