View source for Euclidium ← Euclidium 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=Euclidium |accepted_authority=W. T. Aiton in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew. |place=4: 74. 1812 |year=1812 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Euclidieae;Euclidium |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Euclidieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Euclidium]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek eu- , well, and kleio, shut, alluding to indehiscent fruits |volume=Volume 7 |mention_page=page 237, 241, 545 |treatment_page=page 552 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; not scapose; scabrous, trichomes stalked, 2-forked, submalpighiaceous, mixed with fewer, simple, and, rarely, 3-forked ones, usually different sizes. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, unbranched or branched. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate, sessile, or subsessile; basal (often withered by flowering), not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire, dentate, or repand, rarely pinnatifid; cauline sessile or subsessile, blade similar to basal, margins entire, dentate, or repand. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose), elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels erect, stout. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals ovate to oblong; petals white, narrowly spatulate, (slightly longer than sepals), claw slightly differentiated from blade (shorter than sepals, apex emarginate); stamens slightly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate, (apiculate); nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen. <b>Fruits</b> silicles (nutletlike), indehiscent, sessile, ovoid, subterete to slightly 4-angled; valves not veined, (thickened, woody), scabrous; replum strongly expanded laterally; septum complete, (thickened); ovules 2 per ovary, (subapical); style (persistent), obsolete or distinct; stigma capitate, 2-lobed (lobes not decurrent). <b>Seeds</b> aseriate, plump, not winged, oblong; seed coat (smooth), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent or obliquely so.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=e Europe;c;w Asia;introduced also in Australia. |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Euclidium |author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz |authority=W. T. Aiton in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Brassicaceae |distribution=e Europe;c;w Asia;introduced also in Australia. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew. |publication year=1812 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_885.xml |tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Euclidieae |genus=Euclidium }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Brassicaceae tribe Euclidieae]] 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 Euclidium.