Eruca Miller (Q3638)

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Eruca is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Brassiceae
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Eruca Miller
Eruca is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Brassiceae

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    Eruca Miller
    Eruca
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Eurasia
    Africa
    also in Mexico
    Central America
    South America
    Atlantic Islands
    Australia
    Stems erect, branched [unbranched].
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins usually lyrate-pinnatifid or pinnatipartite, rarely bipinnatisect or undivided;
    cauline shortly petiolate or sessile, blade (base not auriculate), margins entire, dentate, or pinnatifid.
    Fruiting pedicels erect to ascending, stout.
    Flowers: sepals (sometimes persistent), erect, oblong [linear], (connivent), lateral pair saccate basally;
    petals cream or yellow (with dark-brown or purple veins), broadly obovate, claw differentiated from blade (± equal to sepals, apex obtuse or emarginate);
    stamens strongly tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers oblong or linear, (base sagittate, apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (4), distinct, median pair present.
    Fruits siliques, dehiscent, sessile, segments 2, linear or oblong [elliptic], not torulose, terete or slightly 4-angled;
    valves each with prominent midvein, (coriaceous), glabrous, hirsute, or hispid;
    (style obsolete);
    stigma conical, 2-lobed (lobes connivent, decurrent).
    Seeds biseriate, plump, not winged, [sub] globose or ovoid;
    seed-coat (minutely reticulate), mucilaginous when wetted;