Erysimum Linnaeus (Q3819)

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Erysimum is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Erysimeae
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Erysimum Linnaeus
Erysimum is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Erysimeae

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    taxon/id/Erysimum Linnaeus
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    Erysimum Linnaeus
    Erysimum
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Wallflower (English)
    North America
    n Mexico
    Central America
    Europe
    n Africa
    Atlantic Islands (Macaronesia)
    in South America
    Australia
    pubescent, trichomes sessile, medifixed, appressed, 2-rayed (malpighiaceous) or 3–5 (–8) -rayed (stellate), rays (when 2) parallel to long axis of stems, leaves, sepals, and fruits.
    Stems erect or ascending [decumbent], unbranched or branched basally and/or distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins usually entire, dentate, sinuate-dentate, or denticulate, rarely pinnatifid or pinnatisect;
    cauline petiolate or sessile, blade (base cuneate or attenuate [auriculate]), margins entire, dentate, denticulate, dentate-sinuate, or repand.
    Fruiting pedicels erect, ascending, divaricate, reflexed, horizontal, or spreading, slender or stout (nearly as wide as fruit).
    Flowers: sepals oblong or linear, lateral pair saccate or not basally (pubescent);
    petals suborbicular, obovate, or spatulate, claw differentiated from blade (subequaling or longer than sepals, apex rounded [emarginate]);
    stamens (erect), tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers oblong or linear;
    nectar glands (1, 2, or 4), distinct or confluent, subtending bases of stamens, median glands present or absent.
    Fruits usually sessile, rarely shortly stipitate (gynophore to 4 mm), usually linear or narrowly so [oblong], smooth or torulose, (keeled or not);
    valves each with obscure to prominent midvein, pubescent outside, usually glabrous inside;
    (style relatively short, rarely 1/2 as long as or subequaling fruit, often pubescent);
    Seeds plump or flattened, winged, margined, or not winged, oblong, ovoid, obovate, or suborbicular;
    seed-coat (minutely reticulate), mucilaginous when wetted;
    x = (6) 7, 8 (9–17).