Rapistrum Crantz (Q3647)

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Rapistrum is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Brassiceae
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Rapistrum Crantz
Rapistrum is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Brassiceae

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    taxon/id/Rapistrum Crantz
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    Rapistrum Crantz
    Rapistrum
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Wild-turnip (English)
    turnipweed (English)
    s Europe (Mediterranean region)
    also nearly worldwide
    Stems erect, unbranched or branched basally.
    petiolate or subsessile;
    basal not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins usually pinnate to lyrately pinnatifid, rarely undivided, dentate;
    cauline subsessile or shortly petiolate, blade (base not auriculate), margins lobed, subentire, or dentate.
    Fruiting pedicels erect [ascending], (usually appressed to rachis), slender to stout.
    Flowers: sepals ascending, oblong, lateral pair not saccate basally, (hispid [glabrous or with subapical tuft of hairs]);
    petals yellow, obovate, claw differentiated from blade, (apex ± truncate);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate to suboblong, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands confluent, median glands present.
    Fruits silicles, indehiscent, sessile, segments 2, elliptic to oblong, torulose, (slightly to strongly constricted at transverse joint), terete or angular;
    valves glabrous or pubescent;
    (style persistent, filiform);
    stigma capitate, (flattened), 2-lobed.
    Seeds uniseriate, slightly compressed, not winged, ovoid [oblong];
    seed-coat (smooth), not mucilaginous when wetted;