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|accepted_name=Teesdalia
|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: 83. 1812
|year=1812
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Iberideae;Teesdalia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Iberideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Teesdalia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Robert Teesdale, 1740–1804, British botanist and gardener at Yorkshire
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 224, 229, 231, 238, 563, 565
|treatment_page=page 564
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>[perennials]; scapose; glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>Stems</b> (simple or few to several from base), erect or ascending, unbranched. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal (persistent), rosulate, petiolate, blade margins usually lyrate-pinnatifid or pinnatisect, rarely entire or dentate; cauline (0–4), sessile, blade margins entire or dentate. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, several-flowered). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate, slender. <b>Flowers</b> (actinomorphic or zygomorphic); sepals ascending to spreading, ovate, glabrous; petals white, oblong or obovate, (equal to or longer than sepals, or lateral pair much larger), claw undifferentiated from blade, (apex obtuse); stamens (6) tetradynamous, or (4) equal; filaments dilated basally (appendaged); anthers ovate; nectar glands lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen, median glands absent. <b>Fruits</b> (often divaricate), sessile, broadly obcordate to suborbicular, slightly keeled, angustiseptate (strongly compressed), (apex notched); valves prominently veined, (apex narrowly winged), glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 4 per ovary; style absent or not; stigma capitate, entire. <b>Seeds</b> uniseriate, slightly compressed, not winged, broadly ovate; seed coat (rugulose), copiously mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;sw Asia (Middle East);Africa;introduced also in South America (Chile);n;c Europe;nw Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Teesdalia</i> conferta (Lagasca) O. Appel is known from Europe (Portugal, Spain). For a summary of the nomenclature of <i>Teesdalia</i> and references on its species introduced in North America, see I. A. Al-Shehbaz (1986).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=appel1998b
|text=Appel, O. 1998. The status of Teesdaliopsis and Teesdalia (Brassicaceae). Novon 8: 218–219.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers zygomorphic; stamens 6, tetradynamous; basal leaf blades: lateral lobes obtuse; styles ca. 0.1 mm.
|[[Teesdalia nudicaulis|Teesdalia nudicaulis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers actinomorphic; stamens 4, equal; basal leaf blades: lateral lobes acute; styles 0 mm.
|[[Teesdalia coronopifolia|Teesdalia coronopifolia]]
|}
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name=Teesdalia
|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=Europe;sw Asia (Middle East);Africa;introduced also in South America (Chile);n;c Europe;nw Africa;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=appel1998b
|publication title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|publication year=1812
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Iberideae
|genus=Teesdalia
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