Conringia Heister ex Fabricius (Q3816)

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Conringia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Conringieae
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Conringia Heister ex Fabricius
Conringia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Conringieae

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    taxon/id/Conringia Heister ex Fabricius
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    Conringia Heister ex Fabricius
    Conringia
    Heister ex Fabricius
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Hare’s-ear mustard (English)
    c Europe
    e Mediterranean region
    Asia (Afghanistan)
    Asia (Pakistan)
    also in Mexico
    nw Africa
    Australia
    (usually glaucous).
    Stems erect, unbranched or branched proximally.
    subsessile or sessile;
    basal not rosulate, subsessile, blade margins usually entire;
    cauline blade (base cordate-amplexicaul or, rarely, auriculate), margins usually entire, rarely crenulate.
    Fruiting pedicels ascending, stout (almost as thick as fruit, or, rarely, much narrower).
    Flowers: sepals oblong;
    petals usually narrowly obovate, rarely oblanceolate, claw differentiated from blade [undifferentiated], (apex obtuse);
    stamens slightly tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated, slender;
    anthers oblong (base slightly sagittate);
    nectar glands lateral, median glands often absent.
    Fruits sessile, linear, torulose, 4-angled or terete;
    valves each with prominent midvein;
    stigmas capitate-flattened, entire.
    Seeds not winged, oblong [ellipsoid];
    seed-coat (papillose), copiously mucilaginous (granular) when wetted;