Iberis Linnaeus (Q3709)

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Iberis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Iberideae
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Iberis Linnaeus
Iberis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Iberideae

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    taxon/id/Iberis Linnaeus
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    Iberis Linnaeus
    Iberis
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Candytuft (English)
    glabrous or pubescent.
    Stems erect or decumbent, often branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal rosulate or not, sessile [petiolate], blade (somewhat fleshy), margins entire [dentate to pinnatifid];
    cauline petiolate or sessile, blade margins entire, dentate, or pinnatifid.
    Fruiting pedicels spreading, divaricate, descending, or ascending, slender.
    Flowers: sepals ascending [erect], ovate or oblong;
    petals (zygomorphic, outer [abaxial] pair larger than inner [adaxial] pair), white or pink to purple, obovate [oblanceolate], claw often distinct;
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen.
    Fruits sessile, (winged), suborbicular or ovate [obcordate], not torulose, keeled, strongly angustiseptate;
    valves not veined, (winged), glabrous;
    ovules 2 per ovary;
    stigma capitate, entire or 2-lobed.
    Seeds flattened, often winged, ovate [orbicular to reniform];
    seed-coat mucilaginous or not when wetted;