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|accepted_name=Vaccaria
|accepted_authority=Wolf
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.,
|place=3. 1776
|year=1776
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Vaccaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vaccaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin vacca, cow, and -aria, pertaining to, alluding to alleged value for fodder
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 4, 6, 152
|treatment_page=page 156
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual. <b>Taproots</b> stout. <b>Stems</b> simple proximally, branched distally, terete. <b>Leaves</b> opposite, somewhat clasping or connate proximally into sheath, petiolate (basal) or sessile (cauline); blade 1-veined, lanceolate to oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, lax to erect, open, often flat-topped cymes; bracts paired, foliaceous; involucel bracteoles absent. <b>Pedicels</b> erect. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals connate proximally into tube, 9–17 cm, tube whitish green, 5-veined, cylindric to ovoid, 5-angled or winged, especially in fruit, commissures between sepals absent; lobes green, 1-veined, obovate to broadly triangular, shorter than tube, margins green or reddish, scarious, apex acute or acuminate; petals 5, pink to purplish, clawed, auricles absent, coronal appendages absent, blade apex entire or sometimes briefly 2-fid; nectaries at filament bases; stamens 10, adnate to petals; filaments distinct; staminodes absent; ovary 1-locular or sometimes 2-locular proximally; styles 2(–3), filiform, 10–12 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 2(–3), linear along adaxial surface of styles, papillate (30×). <b>Capsules</b> oblong to subglobose, exocarp opening by 4(–6) slightly spreading teeth, endocarp opening irregularly; carpophore present. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 10, black, subglobose, laterally compressed, papillose, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo peripheral, curved. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Eurasia;introduced in South America;Africa (Republic of South Africa);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 1 or 4 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Vaccaria
|author=John W. Thieret;Richard K. Rabeler
|authority=Wolf
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=Eurasia;introduced in South America;Africa (Republic of South Africa);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.,
|publication year=1776
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Vaccaria
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