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Phoenicaulis

dagger-pod, phoenicaulis
Habit Perennials; (caudex well-developed, woody, covered with persistent petiolar remains); not scapose; glabrous or pubescent, trichomes finely dendritic.
Stems

erect, usually unbranched, rarely branched distally.
Leaves

basal and cauline;

petiolate or sessile;

basal (persistent), rosulate, long-petiolate, blade margins entire;

cauline sessile, blade (base auriculate), margins entire.
Racemes

(corymbose, several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit.
Flowers

sepals (erect), oblong, (lateral pair saccate basally);

petals purple or lavender, spatulate to oblanceolate, (longer than sepals, apex obtuse);

stamens tetradynamous;

filaments not dilated basally;

anthers oblong, (apex obtuse);

nectar glands confluent, lateral annular.
Fruiting pedicels

divaricate, slender.
Fruits

sessile or stipitate, lanceolate to linear, not torulose, latiseptate;

valves each with prominent midvein (lateral veins often conspicuous), glabrous;

replum rounded;

septum complete, (opaque);

ovules (6–)8–16(–18) per ovary;

stigma capitate.
Seeds

uniseriate, slightly flattened, not winged, oblong to broadly ovate;

seed coat (smooth), not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent.
x

= 7.

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

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 415. Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae
Subordinate taxa
P. cheiranthoides
Name authority Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 89. (1838)
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