View source for Vaccaria ← Vaccaria 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=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 }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |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= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Vaccaria |author=John W. Thieret;Richard K. Rabeler |authority=Wolf |rank=genus |parent rank=subfamily |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Caryophyllaceae |illustrator=Barbara Alongi |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |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= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_317.xml |subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae |genus=Vaccaria }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Caryophyllaceae (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 Vaccaria.