Smelowskia C. A. Meyer in C. F. von Ledebour (Q3764)

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Smelowskia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Smelowskieae
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Smelowskia C. A. Meyer in C. F. von Ledebour
Smelowskia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Smelowskieae

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    taxon/id/Smelowskia C.A. Meyer
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    Smelowskia C.A. Meyer
    Smelowskia
    C.A. Meyer
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Plants cespitose, caudex well-developed, thick, often-branched, covered with persistent petiolar remains;
    usually pubescent.
    Stems erect to decumbent, unbranched or branched distally, densely pubescent.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins usually 1-pinnatisect or 2-pinnatisect, rarely entire.
    Fruiting pedicels ascending, spreading, suberect, or divaricate [recurved], slender.
    Flowers: sepals (sometimes persistent), oblong [ovate];
    petals spatulate to obovate or suborbicular, (longer than sepals), claw differentiated from blade, (apex rounded);
    stamens slightly tetradynamous;
    filaments often dilated basally;
    anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands usually confluent, subtending bases of stamens, median glands present or not.
    Fruits siliques or silicles, usually sessile, rarely shortly stipitate, linear, oblong, obovoid, ellipsoid, spatulate, oblanceolate, suboblong, or pyriform [fusiform, ovoid, suborbicular], smooth, 4-angled, angustiseptate, terete, or subterete [latiseptate];
    valves each with prominent or obscure midvein, usually glabrous;
    ovules 4–18 per ovary;
    Seeds plump, not winged, usually oblong, rarely oblong-lanceolate;
    seed-coat (minutely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;
    cotyledons incumbent or accumbent.