Braya Sternberg & Hoppe (Q3655)

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Braya is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Euclidieae
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Braya Sternberg & Hoppe
Braya is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Euclidieae

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    taxon/id/Braya Sternberg & Hoppe
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    Braya Sternberg & Hoppe
    Braya
    Sternberg & Hoppe
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    North America
    n Europe
    usually pubescent or pilose, sometimes glabrous, trichomes short-stalked, forked, subdendritic, or submalpighiaceous, mixed with simple ones (rarely exclusively).
    Stems erect to decumbent or ascending, unbranched or branched.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire, sinuate, dentate, or, rarely, pinnately lobed;
    cauline usually absent, rarely few present, (sub) sessile, blade margins usually entire, rarely dentate or pinnately lobed.
    Fruiting pedicels erect, divaricate, or ascending, slender (much narrower than fruit).
    Flowers: sepals [sometimes persistent], oblong [ovate], lateral pair not saccate basally (sometimes slightly so in B. humilis and B. linearis);
    petals white, pink, or purple [rarely pale-yellow], obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, (slightly to much longer than sepals), claw distinct or not, (shorter than sepal, apex obtuse or rounded);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments dilated or not basally;
    anthers ovate or oblong, (apex usually obtuse, sometimes apiculate);
    nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen.
    Fruits siliques or silicles, sessile, linear, oblong, cylindrical, oval-elliptic, ovoid, lanceoloid, lanceoloid-subulate, or globose, smooth or torulose, terete or slightly latiseptate;
    valves each often with prominent midvein, glabrous or pubescent;
    ovules (5–) 14–44 per ovary;
    stigma capitate, entire or slightly 2-lobed.
    Seeds plump, not winged, oblong or ovoid;
    seed-coat (minutely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;