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|accepted_name=Euclidium
|accepted_authority=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
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--><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><!--

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|distribution=e Europe;c;w Asia;introduced also in Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Euclidium
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=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=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Euclidieae
|genus=Euclidium
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