View source for Isatis ← Isatis 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=Isatis |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=2: 670. 1753 |year=1753 }}, {{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Pl. ed. |place=5, 301. 1754 |year=1754 }} |common_names=Woad |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Isatideae;Isatis |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Isatideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Isatis]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek isatis, name used for a dye plant, most likely woad |volume=Volume 7 |mention_page=page 230, 239, 244 |treatment_page=page 567 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Biennials </b>[annuals, perennials]; not scapose; (often glaucous), glabrous or pubescent. <b>Stems</b> erect, often unbranched basally, paniculately branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal rosulate [or not rosulate], petiolate [rarely sessile], blade margins entire, repand, or dentate [rarely pinnately lobed]; cauline blade (base auriculate, sagittate, [or amplexicaul, rarely attenuate]), margins entire [dentate]. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, in panicles, several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels reflexed, slender, (filiform, often thickened and clavate apically). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect or ascending, oblong [ovate]; petals oblanceolate [obovate, spatulate, or oblong], (equal to or longer than sepals), claw absent, (apex obtuse [subemarginate]); stamens slightly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers oblong [ovate], (apex obtuse or apiculate); nectar glands (6) confluent, or (4) lateral and median. <b>Fruits</b> siliques or silicles (samaroid), sessile, oblong, oblanceolate, elliptic, or obovate [ovate, cordate, spatulate, orbicular], 1- (or 2-)seeded, smooth, strongly angustiseptate, (prominently winged all around or distally; seed-bearing locule papery or corky, distinctly or obscurely 1–3-veined, sometimes keeled or shortly winged), glabrous or pubescent; valves and replum united; septum absent; ovules 1 (or 2) per ovary, (subapical); stigma capitate. <b>Seeds</b> plump, not winged, narrowly oblong; seed coat (smooth), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent or accumbent.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Europe;c;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America (Chile;Peru). |discussion=<p>Species 50 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Isatis |author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Brassicaceae |illustrator=Barbara Alongi |distribution=Europe;c;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America (Chile;Peru). |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed. |publication year=1753;1754 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_917.xml |tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Isatideae |genus=Isatis }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Brassicaceae tribe Isatideae]] 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) Return to Isatis.