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|accepted_name=Turritis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 666. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 298. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Tower-mustard;towercress
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Camelineae;Turritis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Camelineae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Turritis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin turris, tower, alluding to pyramidal shape of plants due to overlap of leaves and fruits
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 226, 235, 242, 257
|treatment_page=page 458
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Biennials </b>or, rarely, perennials (short-lived); not scapose; (glaucous distally), glabrous or pubescent (mostly proximally), trichomes simple and/or stalked, forked, or substellate. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched basally, often branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal rosulate, petiolate, margins usually dentate, sinuate, repand, or pinnatifid, rarely entire; cauline blade (base auriculate or sagittate [amplexicaul]), margins dentate or entire. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels erect [divaricate], (appressed to rachis), slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, oblong or linear, (margins membranous); petals usually yellowish or creamy white, rarely pink [purplish], usually narrowly spatulate or linear-oblanceolate, rarely linear, claw not differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse); stamens (erect), tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers narrowly oblong [linear], (apex obtuse); nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens, lateral glands annular, median glands present. <b>Fruits</b> siliques, dehiscent, sessile, linear, smooth, often subterete-quadrangular, (leathery); valves each with prominent midvein, glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete, (membranous, veinless); ovules 130–200 per ovary; (style distinct, short, stout); stigma capitate, (subentire). <b>Seeds</b> biseriate, flattened, not winged or, rarely, narrowly winged, oblong or subglobose [elliptic, orbicular]; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent. <b>x</b> = 6, 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Eurasia;n Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Turritis laxa (Smith) Hayek is distributed in eastern Europe and the Middle East.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=dvoak1967a
|text=Dvoák, F. 1967. A note on the genus Turritis L. Oesterr. Bot. Z. 114: 84–87.
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name=Turritis
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=North America;Eurasia;n Africa.
|reference=dvoak1967a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Camelineae
|genus=Turritis
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