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|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
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--><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><!--

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|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.
}}
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==Key==
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{| 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]]
|}
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-->{{#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/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_325.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Alysseae
|genus=Aurinia
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