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Euclidieae
Lateral nectar glands usually in pairs, rarely annular, each semi-lunar or fragmentary; middle present or absent. Hairs simple, branched, glandular or absent. Stamen filaments linear, not appendaged. Ovary sessile, 1-4-ovuled, often subglobose; stigma capitate or shortly bilobed, rarely with erect or spreading lobes. Fruits indehiscent, neither beaked nor segmented; valves usually hard, often appendaged. Radicle incumbent or accumbent.
Represented by 7 genera and 8 species in our area.
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Fruit apex with 2 prominent lateral auricled appendages |
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Anastatica |
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Fruit apex not appendaged; valves with or without appendages |
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Valves appendaged below the apex |
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Valves without appendages |
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Siliculae cymbiform; valves membranous with the wing-like appendages incurved |
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Tauscheria |
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Siliculae ovate-tetragonal or cubical; valves thickened, coriaceous, with the appendages ± spreading |
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Siliculae valves with 3-6 horn-like appen- dages ; plants stellately hairy; leaves nar-rowed at base with margin sinuate-dentate |
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Octoceras |
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Siliculae valves with narrow crimped, thickened wings; plants glabrous, glaucous; leaves cordate, amplexicaul, entire |
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Boreava |
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Siliculae spindle-shaped, with usually very elongated and variously curved apices (beak); seed-bearing portion 7-8 mm long |
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Spirorrhynchus |
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Siliculae subglobose, with or without a short beak-like process; seed bearing portion less than 5 mm long |
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Cauline leaves auricled at base, amplexicaul; ovary 4-ovuled; beak indistinct |
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Neslia |
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Cauline leaves cuneate at base, not amplexicaul; ovary 2-ovuled; beak conspicuous (persistent or deciduous) |
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Euclidium |
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Lower Taxa
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