Barbarea W. T. Aiton in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton (Q3563)

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Barbarea is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cardamineae
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Barbarea W. T. Aiton in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton
Barbarea is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cardamineae

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    taxon/id/Barbarea W.T. Aiton
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    Barbarea W.T. Aiton
    Barbarea
    W.T. Aiton
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Wintercress (English)
    scurvygrass (English)
    rocket (English)
    uplandcress (English)
    corn-mustard (English)
    North America
    Europe
    n Africa
    Australia
    Stems erect [prostrate], branched distally, (angular [not angular]).
    petiolate and sessile;
    basal rosulate or not, (and proximal cauline) petiolate, blade margins usually entire, crenate or lobed, rarely dentate or repand;
    cauline sessile, blade (base auriculate or amplexicaul) margins entire, dentate, or lobed.
    Fruiting pedicels (sometimes absent), erect to divaricate, slender or stout.
    Flowers: sepals (sometimes persistent), erect [spreading], oblong [ovate, linear], lateral pair saccate or not basally, (apex often cucullate);
    petals yellow or pale-yellow [creamy white], spatulate or oblanceolate, (longer than sepals), claw obscurely differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse or rounded);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments (yellow), not dilated basally;
    anthers oblong, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (4): lateral annular, median toothlike.
    Fruits siliques, sessile or shortly stipitate, usually linear, rarely elliptic-linear, smooth or torulose, terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate;
    valves each with prominent midvein and distinct marginal veins, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent;
    ovules 16–52 per ovary;
    style obsolete or distinct;
    stigma capitate, (sometimes slightly 2-lobed).
    Seeds uniseriate [sub-biseriate], plump or slightly flattened, not winged [winged or margined], oblong, ovoid, or orbicular;
    seed-coat (reticulate or, rarely, tuberculate), not mucilaginous when wetted;