Hirschfeldia Moench

Hirschfeldia (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae

Characteristics

Annual or biennials; not scapose; pubescent. Stems (simple or several from base), erect, branched basally and distally. Leaves basal and cauline; petiolate or subsessile; basal rosulate, petiolate, blade lyrate to pinnatifid, margins crenate-dentate; cauline subsessile or petiolate, blade (base not auriculate), margins dentate or pinnatifid. Racemes (corymbose, several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels erect, stout. Flowers: sepals widely spreading or reflexed, oblong, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals yellow, obovate to spatulate, claw differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse); stamens tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers oblong or ovate, (apex obtuse); nectar glands not confluent, median glands present. Fruits siliques, dehiscent, sessile, segments 2, linear, slightly torulose, terete or slightly 4-angled; (proximal segment not torulose, somewhat corky at maturity, 8-20-seeded; terminal segment indehiscent, 1-or 2-seeded, slightly swollen apically); valves 3(-7)-veined, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 10-22 per ovary; (style present); stigma capitate, entire. Seeds uniseriate, plump, not winged, globose; seed coat (smooth to finely reticulate), mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate. x = 7.
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Annual to perennial taprooted herbs. Hairs simple. Stems erect or ascending, leafy. Lvs lyrate-pinnate. Racemes ebracteate. Sepals ± erect, the inner slightly saccate. Petals yellow or white, entire. Stamens 6, without appendages. Lateral nectaries 2, 3-lobed, inside the bases of the lateral stamens; median nectaries 2, simple, outside each pair of median stamens. Stigma sessile, capitate. Silique cylindric, dehiscent; valves obscurely 3-veined when ripe; beak swollen at tip, indehiscent, 0-2-seeded. Seeds ovoid, not winged, in 1 row per locule.
Annual or biennial, scabrous herbs. Sepals erect, the inner pair slightly saccate. Petals clawed. Stamens 6; nectariferous glands 4, a 3-lobed gland inside base of short stamens, a large gland outside each pair of long stamens. Siliqua dehiscent, beaked; valves with three prominent veins; beak short, swollen. Seeds ovoid, 1 row per locule, 0–2 in beak; cotyledons conduplicate; radicle incumbent.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

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Images

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Distribution

Hirschfeldia world distribution map, present in Australia, New Zealand, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12660-1
WFO ID wfo-4000017984
COL ID 4XHZ
BDTFX ID 86558
INPN ID 193306
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Synonyms

Hirschfeldia

Lower taxons

Hirschfeldia incana