Alliaria Heister ex Fabricius (Q3450)

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Alliaria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Thlaspideae
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Alliaria Heister ex Fabricius
Alliaria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Thlaspideae

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    taxon/id/Alliaria Heister ex Fabricius
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    Alliaria Heister ex Fabricius
    Alliaria
    Heister ex Fabricius
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Garlic mustard (English)
    glabrous or pubescent, trichomes simple.
    Stems erect [decumbent], often branched distally.
    basal (often withered by anthesis or fruiting), rosulate, long-petiolate, blade margins crenate, dentate, or sinuate;
    cauline shortly petiolate, blade margins dentate.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate or ascending, stout (almost as broad as fruit [slender, narrower than fruit]).
    Flowers: sepals erect, oblong, lateral pair not saccate basally, (glabrous);
    petals oblanceolate, (longer than sepals), claw obscurely differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse);
    stamens slightly tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.
    Fruits siliques, sessile, linear [oblong], torulose or subtorulose, terete, subterete, or 4-angled;
    valves each with prominent midvein and distinct marginal veins, glabrous [scabrous];
    ovules [4–] 6–22 per ovary;
    style obsolete or distinct (to 6 mm);
    stigma capitate, entire.
    Seeds plump, not winged, oblong;
    seed-coat (longitudinally striate), not mucilaginous when wetted;
    cotyledons incumbent.