Lunaria Linnaeus (Q3810)

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Lunaria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Lunarieae
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Lunaria Linnaeus
Lunaria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Lunarieae

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    taxon/id/Lunaria Linnaeus
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    Lunaria Linnaeus
    Lunaria
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Honesty (English)
    money-plant (English)
    satin-flower (English)
    moonwort (English)
    Europe
    also in s South America
    pubescent, glabrate, or glabrous.
    Stems erect, unbranched or branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal (soon withered, opposite), rosulate, long-petiolate, blade margins coarsely dentate;
    cauline (opposite or alternate), petiolate or (distal) sessile, blade margins coarsely dentate.
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate or ascending, slender.
    Flowers: sepals cucullate, (median pair) linear or (lateral pair) broadly oblongelliptic;
    petals obovate, (much longer than sepals), claw strongly differentiated from blade, (nearly as long as sepal, apex obtuse);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments usually not dilated basally (or slender);
    anthers oblong or linear, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands lateral, annular or semiannular.
    Fruits (often pendulous), long-stipitate [rarely subsessile], oblong to suborbicular [orbicular, lanceolate-elliptic], not torulose, strongly latiseptate;
    valves each not veined, glabrous;
    stigma capitate, 2-lobed (lobes opposite replum, connivent or not).
    Seeds strongly flattened, broadly winged [not winged], reniform [orbicular];
    seed-coat not mucilaginous when wetted;