Hornungia Reichenbach in H. G. L. Reichenbach et al. (Q3699)

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Hornungia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Descurainieae
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Hornungia Reichenbach in H. G. L. Reichenbach et al.
Hornungia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Descurainieae

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    taxon/id/Hornungia Reichenbach
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    Hornungia Reichenbach
    Hornungia
    Reichenbach
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Europe
    n Africa
    also in Mexico
    South America
    s Africa
    Australia
    glabrous or puberulent, trichomes minutely branched and subsessile, mixed with simple ones.
    Stems erect, ascending, or decumbent [procumbent], branched or, rarely, unbranched.
    petiolate or subsessile;
    basal rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins entire, dentate, or pinnatisect;
    cauline petiolate or subsessile, blade margins pinnatisect, pinnatifid, dentate, or entire.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate, slender.
    Flowers: sepals spreading or reflexed, ovate [or oblong], (glabrous or puberulent);
    petals white, spatulate, [obovate, oblong, or oblanceolate], (longer or shorter than sepals), claw absent, (apex obtuse or rounded);
    stamens (rarely 4), subtetradynamous;
    filaments often dilated basally;
    anthers ovate, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen, median glands present or absent.
    Fruits silicles, sessile, oblong, elliptic, obovoid [ovoid, suborbicular, lanceoloid], keeled, angustiseptate;
    valves each with prominent midvein, glabrous;
    ovules [4–] 10–24 per ovary;
    style usually obsolete (rarely to 0.5 mm);
    Seeds biseriate or aseriate, plump, not winged, oblong;
    seed-coat (obscurely reticulate) mucilaginous or not when wetted;