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Anelsonia

anelsonia
Habit Perennials; (cespitose, deep-rooted); scapose; pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, dendritic or irregularly forked, (soft).
Stems

erect, unbranched.
Leaves

(persistent) basal; rosulate;

petiolate;

blade margins entire.
Racemes

(corymbose, few- to several-flowered), not or slightly elongated in fruit.
Flowers

sepals (early caducous, erect), oblong, (pubescent), base of lateral pair not saccate;

petals white to purplish, oblanceolate, (slightly longer than sepals);

stamens tetradynamous;

filaments not dilated basally;

anthers ovate;

nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.
Fruiting pedicels

ascending to suberect, slender.
Fruits

(erect, siliques or silicles), sessile or short-stipitate, lanceolate, broadly oblong to narrowly ovate, not torulose, latiseptate;

valves each with prominent midvein and somewhat anastomosing lateral veins, glabrous;

replum rounded;

septum complete;

ovules 10–24 per ovary;

stigma capitate.
Seeds

biseriate, somewhat flattened, not winged, oblong to ovoid;

seed coat (silvery, papillate), not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent.
x

= 7.

Anelsonia
Distribution
from USDA
w United States
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

Anelsonia is most closely related to Boechera and Phoenicaulis, from which it is readily distinguished by its scapose habit and papillate seeds.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 347. Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae
Subordinate taxa
A. eurycarpa
Name authority J. F. Macbride & Payson: Bot. Gaz. 64: 81. (1917)
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