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|accepted_name=Berteroa
|accepted_authority=de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|place=7: 232: 290. 1821
|year=1821
}}
|common_names=Hoary-alyssum
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Alysseae;Berteroa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Alysseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Berteroa]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Carlo Giuseppe Bertero, 1789–1831, Italian physician and botanist who settled in Chile
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 237, 241
|treatment_page=page 252
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or biennials [perennials]; not scapose; pubescent, trichomes stellate, mixed with simple ones. <b>Stems</b> erect [ascending], usually branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire or repand [dentate, sinuate]; cauline (middle and distal) sessile. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, several-flowered, dense), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels erect or divaricate, slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect-ascending [suberect, spreading], oblong, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals usually white, rarely yellow, obcordate, apex deeply 2-fid; stamens tetradynamous; filaments: median pair flattened basally, unappendaged, [laterally 1-toothed], lateral pair with basal toothlike appendage; anthers oblong, (apex obtuse); nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen. <b>Fruits</b> sessile, oblong, or elliptic [ovate, obovate, or orbicular], smooth, slightly inflated [or not inflated], latiseptate; valves each not veined or with obscure midvein, stellate-hairy [glabrous]; replum rounded; septum complete, (membranous); ovules 4–16 per ovary; stigma capitate, obscurely 2-lobed. <b>Seeds</b> biseriate, flattened [plump], margined [winged or not], lenticular or ovoid-lenticular [suborbicular]; seed coat (minutely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Berteroa</i> mutabilis (Ventenat) de Candolle, native to northeastern Italy, the Balkan Peninsula, and northern Turkey, is known in North America only from a handful of collections almost all made more than a century ago as garden escapes in Kansas and Massachusetts. Although it was included by R. C. Rollins (1993), who indicated that it had not been collected for 60 years, the species apparently did not become naturalized in North America and, therefore, is not included here. From <i>B. incana</i>, B. mutabilis is easily distinguished by having winged instead of margined seeds, and flat and glabrous versus inflated and pubescent fruits. As indicated by I. A. Al-Shehbaz (1987), the record of <i>B. obliqua</i> (Smith) de Candolle from the Catskill region, New York, was based on misidentified plants of <i>B. incana</i>.</p>
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name=Berteroa
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Europe;Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1821
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Alysseae
|genus=Berteroa
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