Thlaspi Linnaeus (Q3452)

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Thlaspi is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Thlaspideae
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Thlaspi Linnaeus
Thlaspi is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Thlaspideae

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    Thlaspi Linnaeus
    Thlaspi
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Pennycress (English)
    Eurasia
    n Africa
    also nearly worldwide
    glabrous or pubescent.
    Stems erect, unbranched or branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile [subsessile];
    basal (often withered in fruit), rosulate or not, petiolate [subsessile], margins entire, repand, dentate, or sinuate-dentate;
    cauline sessile, blade (base auriculate or sagittate), margins dentate, repand, or entire.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate, (straight or slightly curved), slender.
    Flowers: sepals erect or ascending, ovate or oblong, (margins membranous);
    petals spatulate [oblong], claw differentiated or not from blade, (apex obtuse or emarginate);
    stamens slightly tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (2 or 4), lateral, often 1 on each side of lateral stamen, median glands absent.
    Fruits silicles, sessile, oblong, obovate, obcordate, or suborbicular, (apex often notched), keeled, strongly angustiseptate;
    valves winged throughout or apically, glabrous;
    ovules 6–16 per ovary;
    style obsolete or not, (included in apical notch);
    Seeds plump, not winged, ovoid;
    seed-coat (coarsely reticulate, alveolate or concentrically striate), not mucilaginous when wetted;