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Lunaria
Lunaria
Family:
Brassicaceae
Tony Frates
Flora of North America
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Plants
not scapose; pubescent, glabrate, or glabrous.
Stems
erect, unbranched or branched distally.
Leaves
basal and cauline; 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.
Racemes
(corymbose, several-flowered, rarely proximalmost flowers bracteate), considerably elongated in fruit.
Fruiting pedicels
divaricate or ascending, slender.
Flowers:
sepals cucullate, (median pair) linear or (lateral pair) broadly oblong-elliptic; 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 semi-annular.
Fruits
(often pendulous), long-stipitate [rarely subsessile], oblong to suborbicular [orbicular, lanceolate-elliptic], not torulose, strongly latiseptate; valves each not veined, glabrous; replum rounded; septum (persistent), complete, (broad, shiny); style slender; 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; cotyledons accumbent.
x
= 15.
Lunaria annua
Lunaria rediviva
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