Nasturtium W. T. Aiton in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton (Q3616)

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

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    taxon/id/Nasturtium W.T. Aiton
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    Nasturtium W.T. Aiton
    Nasturtium
    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
    Watercress (English)
    North America
    n Mexico
    Central America
    Europe
    n Africa
    also in South America
    tropical and s Africa
    Australia
    nearly worldwide
    Stems prostrate or decumbent, or erect in emergent plants, unbranched.
    petiole base sometimes auriculate, blade (pinnately compound in emerged plants, or simple in deeply submerged plants, lateral leaflets petiolulate or sessile, 1–6 (–12) pairs), margins entire, repand, or, rarely, dentate.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate or descending, slender, (glabrous or adaxially puberulent).
    Flowers: sepals erect or ascending, oblong [ovate], lateral pair subsaccate or not saccate basally, (glabrous);
    petals usually white, rarely pink, obovate or narrowly spatulate, (longer than sepals), claw undifferentiated from blade, (attenuate to clawlike base, apex obtuse, acute, or rounded);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments (white), not dilated basally;
    anthers oblong, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (2), lateral, annular or semiannular.
    Fruits siliques, sessile, usually linear, rarely narrowly oblong, smooth or slightly torulose, straight or slightly curved, terete;
    valves each obscurely veined, glabrous;
    ovules 25–50 per ovary;
    style obsolete or distinct;
    Seeds plump, not winged, oblong or ovoid;
    seed-coat (minutely to coarsely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;