Braya glabella Richardson in J. Franklin et al. (Q3660)

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Braya glabella is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Braya
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Braya glabella Richardson in J. Franklin et al.
Braya glabella is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Braya

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    taxon/id/Braya glabella Richardson
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    Braya glabella Richardson
    Braya glabella
    Richardson
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    smooth braya (English)
    smooth rockcress (English)
    smooth northern rockcress (English)
    braya glabre (French)
    sparsely to densely pubescent, trichomes simple, 2-forked or 3-forked.
    Stems simple or few to several from base, ascending or erect, rarely decumbent to prostrate, (0.1–) 0.3–1.7 (–2.3) dm.
    Basal leaves: blade (often somewhat fleshy), linear-oblanceolate to broadly spatulate, (0.4–) 0.8–6 (–7.9) cm × (0.3–) 0.6–4 (–6) mm, base (membranous), broadly expanded near point of attachment, margins usually entire, sometimes weakly dentate with 1 or 2 teeth per side, apex obtuse, (often with a tuft of long, simple hairs, surfaces sparsely to moderately pubescent).
    (Racemes elongated or not in fruit.) Fruiting pedicels ascending-erect to divaricate, (0.9–) 1.9–7.5 (–8.6) mm.
    Flowers: sepals (1.6–) 1.9–3.7 × (0.7–) 1–2 mm;
    petals white or purplish (broadly obovate or spatulate), (2.1–) 2.4–4.5 (–4.7) × (0.7–) 1–3 (–3.2) mm, (apex rounded);
    filaments 1.7–2.2 mm;
    anthers oblong, 0.3–0.5 mm.
    Fruits oval-elliptic, oblongelliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceoloid, sometimes slightly torulose, (straight or somewhat curved), (0.3–) 0.5–1.2 (–1.5) cm × (0.8–) 1.1–3 (–3.6) mm;
    valves sparsely to densely pubescent or glabrous, trichomes simple or 2 (or 3) -forked;
    septum margin not expanded or not basally;
    ovules (5–) 16–20 per ovary;
    style (0.3–) 0.5–1.8 (–2) mm;
    stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed, (narrow or broad).
    Seeds biseriate, oblong, (0.7–) 0.9–1.6 × 0.4–0.8 (–0.9) mm.