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Aurinia
Family:
Brassicaceae
FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials [biennials, subshrubs];
(caudex woody); not scapose; pubescent, trichomes minutely stalked to sessile, stellate, 6-10-rayed [lepidote].
Stems
erect or ascending, often (paniculately) branched distally.
Leaves
basal and cauline; petiolate; basal rosulate, petiolate (petioles deeply grooved), blade margins repand, sinuate, dentate, or pinnatifid; cauline petiolate, blade (much smaller than basal), margins entire [dentate, sinuate].
Racemes
(corymbose, several-flowered, buds globose), slightly or considerably elongated in fruit.
Fruiting pedicels
divaricate or ascending , slender.
Flowers:
sepals spreading, ovate, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals yellow [white], obovate to spatulate, claw slightly differentiated from blade, (apex emarginate, [2-fid or obtuse]); stamens tetradynamous; filaments dilated (winged or minutely appendaged) basally; anthers ovate; nectar glands lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen.
Fruits
sessile, ellipsoid to obovoid, or broadly obovate to orbicular [globose, elliptic], not torulose, terete or latiseptate; valves each not veined, glabrous [pubescent]; replum rounded; septum usually complete, rarely perforate; ovules 4-8(-16) per ovary; stigma capitate, usually 2-lobed, rarely subentire.
Seeds
uniseriate or biseriate, flattened, winged [not winged], suborbicular [orbicular or elliptic]; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent or oblique.
x
= 8.
Aurinia corymbosa
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Aurinia petraea
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Aurinia saxatilis
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Aurinia sinuata
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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