Capsella Medikus (Q3479)

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Capsella is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Camelineae
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Capsella Medikus
Capsella is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Camelineae

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    Capsella Medikus
    Capsella
    Medikus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Shepherd’s-purse (English)
    Europe
    n Africa
    also in Mexico
    West Indies
    Central America
    South America
    Atlantic Islands
    Pacific Islands
    Australia
    mostly pubescent, trichomes sessile and stellate, sometimes mixed with simple or forked ones.
    Stems erect or ascending, unbranched or branched.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins pinnately lobed, lyrate, runcinate, or, rarely, entire, dentate, or repand [sinuate];
    cauline blade (base sagittate, amplexicaul, or auriculate), margins entire, dentate, or sinuate.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate, slender.
    Flowers: sepals erect or ascending, [ovate-] oblong, (glabrous or pubescent);
    petals [sometimes absent] usually white or pink [reddish], obovate [spatulate], (much longer or shorter than sepals), claw differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate [oblong], (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen.
    Fruits silicles, dehiscent, sessile, obdeltoid to obdeltoid-obcordiform, strongly flattened, strongly keeled, angustiseptate;
    valves (papery), each prominently veined, glabrous;
    (style included or exserted from apical notch);
    Seeds uniseriate, plump, not winged, oblong;
    seed-coat (reticulate), mucilaginous when wetted;