Neslia Desvaux (Q3481)

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Neslia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Camelineae
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Neslia Desvaux
Neslia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Camelineae

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    taxon/id/Neslia Desvaux
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    Neslia Desvaux
    Neslia
    Desvaux
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Europe
    n Africa
    also in South America (Argentina)
    Australia
    mostly pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, forked or substellate, mixed (on stem) with simple ones.
    Stems erect, unbranched basally, branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal not rosulate, shortly petiolate, blade margins entire, dentate, or denticulate;
    cauline blade (base sagittate or strongly auriculate), margins usually entire, rarely denticulate.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending, slender.
    Flowers: sepals erect, oblong-ovate (pubescent);
    petals yellow, spatulate, (longer than sepals), claw not differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse);
    stamens slightly tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen.
    Fruits silicles, nutletlike, indehiscent, subsessile, woody, compressed globose or sublenticular (readily detached from pedicel at maturity, apex truncate [umbonate]);
    valves (1-seeded), prominently reticulate, glabrous;
    replum rounded (obscured by valve margin);
    (style distinct, cylindrical, readily caducous at fruit maturity, leaving umbo or apicula);
    Seeds uniseriate, plump, not winged, ovoid;
    seed-coat (minutely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;