Boechera Á. Löve & D. Löve (Q3778)

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Boechera is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Boechereae
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Boechera Á. Löve & D. Löve
Boechera is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Boechereae

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    taxon/id/Boechera Á. Löve & D. Löve
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    Boechera Á. Löve & D. Löve
    Boechera
    Á. Löve & D. Löve
    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 Mexico
    e Asia (Russian Far East)
    usually glabrous or pubescent, rarely hirsute or hispid, trichomes simple or branched, 2–14-rayed, sometimes dendritic, not stellate.
    Stems erect, ascending, or decumbent, unbranched or branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins usually entire or dentate, rarely lyrate-pinnatifid;
    cauline usually sessile, rarely shortly petiolate, blade (base sometimes auriculate or sagittate), margins entire or dentate.
    Fruiting pedicels erect, ascending, divaricate, or reflexed (secund or not), slender.
    Flowers: sepals ovate or oblong, (lateral pair slightly saccate or not basally, margins membranous);
    petals usually white, pink, lavender, or purple, rarely yellowish, red, or magenta, spatulate or oblanceolate, (claw shorter than sepals or undifferentiated from blade, apex obtuse);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse), [pollen ellipsoid (sexual plants) or spheroid (apomictic)];
    nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens, lateral glands semiannular or annular.
    Fruits usually sessile, rarely shortly stipitate, usually linear, rarely oblong or lanceolate, straight or falcate, smooth or torulose;
    valves (papery), each with obscure or prominent midvein, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent;
    replum (visible), rounded;
    (style sometimes obsolete);
    Seeds usually uniseriate or sub-biseriate, rarely biseriate, flattened, winged, not winged, or margined, oblong or orbicular;
    seed-coat (usually smooth or minutely reticulate, rarely papillate), not mucilaginous when wetted;
    cotyledons accumbent.