Cardamine Linnaeus (Q3568)

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Cardamine is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cardamineae
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Cardamine Linnaeus
Cardamine is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cardamineae

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    taxon/id/Cardamine Linnaeus
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    Cardamine Linnaeus
    Cardamine
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    bittercress (English)
    Bittercress (English)
    Nearly worldwide
    Stems erect, ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, unbranched or branched.
    rhizomal and basal rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins entire, toothed, or 1–3-pinnatisect, or palmately lobed, sometimes trifoliolate, pinnately, palmately, or bipinnately compound (leaflets petiolulate, subsessile, or sessile);
    cauline (usually alternate, rarely opposite or whorled) petiolate or sessile, blade (base cuneate, attenuate, or auriculate to sagittate), margins entire, dentate, or variously lobed, (leaflets petiolulate or sessile).
    Fruiting pedicels erect, ascending, divaricate, or reflexed, slender or stout.
    Flowers: sepals (caducous), usually erect, rarely spreading or ascending, ovate or oblong, lateral pair saccate or not basally, (usually glabrous, rarely pubescent);
    petals (rarely absent), white, pink, purple, or lilac, obovate, spatulate, or oblanceolate, claw absent or strongly differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse, rounded, emarginate, or subemarginate);
    stamens (6, rarely 4), equal in length;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate, oblong, or linear, (apex obtuse), glabrous [rarely pubescent];
    nectar glands confluent, lateral glands annular or semiannular, subtending bases of stamens, median glands present (2, rarely 4) or absent.
    Fruits siliques, sessile, usually linear, rarely narrowly oblong or narrowly lanceolate, smooth or torulose, latiseptate;
    valves (papery, elastically dehiscent, becoming spirally or circinately coiled) each not veined, glabrous or, rarely, pubescent;
    replum strongly flattened;
    ovules 4–80 per ovary;
    style usually distinct, rarely obsolete;
    Seeds uniseriate, flattened, usually not winged, rarely margined or winged, oblong, ovoid, or globose;
    seed-coat (smooth, minutely reticulate, colliculate, or rugose) mucilaginous or not when wetted;