Aubrieta Adanson (Q3558)

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Aubrieta is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Arabideae
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Aubrieta Adanson
Aubrieta is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Arabideae

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    Aubrieta Adanson
    Aubrieta
    Adanson
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    pubescent, trichomes stellate, short-stalked or sessile, mixed with coarser, stalked, forked, and simple ones.
    Stems erect to decumbent, branched basally, (slender).
    petiolate or sessile [subsessile];
    basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire or dentate;
    cauline petiolate or sessile [subsessile], blade (base not auriculate), margins entire or dentate.
    Fruiting pedicels erect to divaricate, slender.
    Flowers: sepals erect, oblong, lateral pair saccate basally, (glabrous or pubescent);
    petals usually purple to violet, rarely white [pink], obovate [spatulate], (apex obtuse);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments narrowly winged, (lateral pair with toothed appendage);
    anthers oblong [ovate];
    nectar glands lateral, semiannular, extrastaminal.
    Fruits siliques or, rarely, silicles, sessile, ellipsoid, [linear, oblong, or elliptic], not torulose, terete or latiseptate;
    valves each with distinct midvein, pubescent or, rarely, glabrous;
    (style persistent);
    Seeds biseriate, flattened, not winged, ovoid [elliptical];
    seed-coat not mucilaginous when wetted;
    cotyledons accumbent.