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Nevada
Nevada
Family:
Brassicaceae
FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
(cespitose, caudex simple or few-branched); not scapose; pubescent or glabrous, trichomes simple.
Stems
erect, unbranched or branched distally.
Leaves
basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire; cauline sessile, blade (base not auriculate), margins entire.
Racemes
(corymbose, several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit.
Fruiting pedicels
ascending to suberect, slender.
Flowers:
sepals (erect), oblong-ovate, (glabrous); petals white, obovate to spatulate, (longer than sepals, claw obscurely differentiated from blade, apex obtuse); stamens slightly tetradynamous; filaments not or slightly dilated basally; anthers ovate, (apex obtuse); nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.
Fruits
sessile or subsessile, linear to linear-lanceolate, torulose, terete; valves each with obscure midvein extending to middle, glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 6-12 per ovary; stigma capitate.
Seeds
uniseriate, plump, not winged, narrowly oblong; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent.
x
= 7.
Species within inventory project:
Arizona Flora
Nevada holmgrenii
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