Berteroa de Candolle (Q3460)

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Berteroa is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Alysseae
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Berteroa de Candolle
Berteroa is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Alysseae

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    taxon/id/Berteroa de Candolle
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    Berteroa de Candolle
    Berteroa
    de Candolle
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Hoary-alyssum (English)
    pubescent, trichomes stellate, mixed with simple ones.
    Stems erect [ascending], usually branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire or repand [dentate, sinuate];
    cauline (middle and distal) sessile.
    Fruiting pedicels erect or divaricate, slender.
    Flowers: sepals erect-ascending [suberect, spreading], oblong, lateral pair not saccate basally;
    petals usually white, rarely yellow, obcordate, apex deeply 2-fid;
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments: median pair flattened basally, unappendaged, [laterally 1-toothed], lateral pair with basal toothlike appendage;
    anthers oblong, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen.
    Fruits sessile, oblong, or elliptic [ovate, obovate, or orbicular], smooth, slightly inflated [or not inflated], latiseptate;
    valves each not veined or with obscure midvein, stellate-hairy [glabrous];
    ovules 4–16 per ovary;
    stigma capitate, obscurely 2-lobed.
    Seeds biseriate, flattened [plump], margined [winged or not], lenticular or ovoid-lenticular [suborbicular];
    seed-coat (minutely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;