View source for Aurinia ← Aurinia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Aurinia |accepted_authority=Desvaux |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=J. Bot. Agric. |place=3: 162. 1815 |year=1815 }} |common_names=Goldentuft;rock-alyssum |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Alysseae;Aurinia |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>[[Aurinia]]</div></div> |etymology=Latin aurum, gold, and -inia, colored, alluding to flower |volume=Volume 7 |mention_page=page 226, 237, 241 |treatment_page=page 251 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[biennials, subshrubs]; (caudex woody); not scapose; pubescent, trichomes minutely stalked to sessile, stellate, 6–10-rayed [lepidote]. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, often (paniculately) branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate; basal rosulate, petiolate (petioles deeply grooved), blade margins repand, sinuate, dentate, or pinnatifid; cauline petiolate, blade (much smaller than basal), margins entire [dentate, sinuate]. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, several-flowered, buds globose), slightly or considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate or ascending, slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals spreading, ovate, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals yellow [white], obovate to spatulate, claw slightly differentiated from blade, (apex emarginate, [2-fid or obtuse]); stamens tetradynamous; filaments dilated (winged or minutely appendaged) basally; anthers ovate; nectar glands lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen. <b>Fruits</b> sessile, ellipsoid to obovoid, or broadly obovate to orbicular [globose, elliptic], not torulose, terete or latiseptate; valves each not veined, glabrous [pubescent]; replum rounded; septum usually complete, rarely perforate; ovules 4–8(–16) per ovary; stigma capitate, usually 2-lobed, rarely subentire. <b>Seeds</b> uniseriate or biseriate, flattened, winged [not winged], suborbicular [orbicular or elliptic]; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent or oblique. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=c;se Europe (Caucasus);sw Asia. |discussion=<p>Species 10 (2 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=dudley1966a |text=Dudley, T. R. 1966. Ornamental madworts (Alyssum) and the correct name of the goldentuft alyssum. Arnoldia (Jamaica Plain) 26: 33–48. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Fruits ellipsoid to obovoid, inflated; seeds 1.5-1.8 mm diam.; wing 0.1-0.3 mm wide. |[[Aurinia petraea|Aurinia petraea]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Fruits broadly obovate to orbicular, flattened; seeds 2-3 mm diam.; wing 0.3-1.1 mm wide. |[[Aurinia saxatilis|Aurinia saxatilis]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Aurinia |author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz |authority=Desvaux |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Brassicaceae |distribution=c;se Europe (Caucasus);sw Asia. |introduced=true |reference=dudley1966a |publication title=J. Bot. Agric. |publication year=1815 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_325.xml |tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Alysseae |genus=Aurinia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Brassicaceae tribe Alysseae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Brassicaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Aurinia.