Camelina Crantz (Q3475)

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Camelina is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Camelineae
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Camelina Crantz
Camelina is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Camelineae

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    taxon/id/Camelina Crantz
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    Camelina Crantz
    Camelina
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Flaxweed (English)
    false-flax (English)
    gold-of-pleasure (English)
    Europe
    n Africa
    also in South America
    Australia
    pubescent, glabrescent, or glabrous, trichomes simple or short-stalked, with forked to substellate or subdendritic (smaller) ones.
    Stems erect, unbranched basally, branched distally, (basally hirsute with simple trichomes or sparsely pubescent with branched ones).
    petiolate or subsessile;
    basal (often withered by flowering), rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins entire or toothed or, rarely, lobed;
    cauline blade (base auriculate or sagittate), margins entire, dentate to lobed, or denticulate.
    Fruiting pedicels ascending to divaricate, slender.
    Flowers: sepals erect to ascending, oblong or ovate;
    petals usually yellow, rarely white, oblanceolate [spatulate], (longer than sepals), claw and blade somewhat differentiated, (apex obtuse);
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen.
    Fruits silicles or, rarely, siliques, dehiscent, shortly stipitate, pyriform, obovoid, or depressed-globose [linear], keeled or not, slightly latiseptate;
    valves each with prominent or obscure midvein, (leathery, smooth, margins of each flattened and connate, apex abruptly caudate and extending 1–2.5 mm onto, and appearing as part of, style), pubescent;
    replum concealed by connate margins of valves;
    ovules 8–25 per ovary;
    Seeds biseriate or, rarely, uniseriate, plump or slightly flattened, not winged or narrowly margined, oblong;
    seed-coat (minutely reticulate), copiously mucilaginous when wetted;
    x = 6, 7, 10, 13.