Turritis Linnaeus (Q3842)

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Turritis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Turritideae
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Turritis Linnaeus
Turritis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Turritideae

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    taxon/id/Turritis Linnaeus
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    Turritis Linnaeus
    Turritis
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Tower-mustard (English)
    towercress (English)
    North America
    Eurasia
    n Africa
    (glaucous distally), glabrous or pubescent (mostly proximally), trichomes simple and/or stalked, forked, or substellate.
    Stems erect, unbranched basally, often branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal rosulate, petiolate, margins usually dentate, sinuate, repand, or pinnatifid, rarely entire;
    cauline blade (base auriculate or sagittate [amplexicaul]), margins dentate or entire.
    Fruiting pedicels erect [divaricate], (appressed to rachis), slender.
    Flowers: sepals erect, oblong or linear, (margins membranous);
    petals usually yellowish or creamy white, rarely pink [purplish], usually narrowly spatulate or linear-oblanceolate, rarely linear, claw not differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse);
    stamens (erect), tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers narrowly oblong [linear], (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens, lateral glands annular, median glands present.
    Fruits siliques, dehiscent, sessile, linear, smooth, often subterete-quadrangular, (leathery);
    valves each with prominent midvein, glabrous;
    (style distinct, short, stout);
    stigma capitate, (subentire).
    Seeds biseriate, flattened, not winged or, rarely, narrowly winged, oblong or subglobose [elliptic, orbicular];
    seed-coat not mucilaginous when wetted;