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entire-leaf thelypody

Habit Annuals, biennials, perennials, shrubs, or subshrubs; eglandular.
Cauline leaves

petiolate or sessile;

blade base auriculate or not, margins entire, dentate, or pinnately lobed.

Trichomes

usually simple, rarely forked or dendritic [subdendritic], sometimes absent.

Racemes

elongated or sub-umbellate in fruit;

central rachis (0.5–)1.2–10(–25) cm.

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

Flowers

petals usually lavender to purple, rarely white, (4.5–)5.5–8(–10.5) mm;

gynophore stout, 0.5–1.2(–2.5).

usually actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic;

sepals erect, ascending, spreading, or reflexed, lateral pair saccate or not basally;

petals white, yellow, orange, pink, lilac, lavender, purple, green, brown, or nearly black, claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

Fruiting pedicels

usually divaricate to divaricate-ascending, rarelyhorizontal, straight or slightly incurved, not whitish,often slender, sometimes stout, (4–)6–10(–13) mm, not or slightly flattened at base.

Fruits

divaricate-ascending to ascending, straight or incurved, (1–)1.5–3(–4) cm.

usually siliques, rarely silicles, usually dehiscent, unsegmented, usually terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate;

ovules 1–210[–numerous] per ovary;

style obsolete, distinct, or absent;

stigma usually entire or 2-lobed (subentire in Sibaropsis, Streptanthella).

Seeds

usually biseriate or uniseriate, rarely aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

2n

= 26.

Thelypodium integrifolium subsp. integrifolium

Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae

Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Alkaline grounds and flats, desert shrub communities, barren hillsides, mineralized grounds near hot springs
Elevation 600-2500 m (2000-8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY
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North America; Mexico; Central America; South America
Discussion

Genera 27, species ca. 215 (14 genera, 105 species in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 733. FNA vol. 7, p. 676.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Thelypodium > Thelypodium integrifolium Brassicaceae
Sibling taxa
T. integrifolium subsp. affine, T. integrifolium subsp. complanatum, T. integrifolium subsp. gracilipes, T. integrifolium subsp. longicarpum
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms Pleurophragma lilacinum, T. lilacinum, T. lilacinum var. subumbellatum
Name authority unknown Prantl: in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 55[III,2]: 155. (1891)
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