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Conringia
Family:
Brassicaceae
Flora of North America
Resources
Suzanne I. Warwick in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Plants
not scapose; (usually glaucous).
Stems
erect, unbranched or branched proximally.
Leaves
basal and cauline; subsessile or sessile; basal not rosulate, subsessile, blade margins usually entire; cauline blade (base cordate-amplexicaul or, rarely, auriculate), margins usually entire, rarely crenulate.
Racemes
(corymbose, several-flowered).
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; replum rounded; septum complete; stigmas capitate-flattened, entire.
Seeds
not winged, oblong [ellipsoid]; seed coat (papillose), copiously mucilaginous (granular) when wetted; cotyledons incumbent.
x
= 7 [9].
Species within checklist:
Preliminary Checklist for the Arkansas Valley
Conringia orientalis