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|accepted_name=Lunaria
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 653. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 294. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Honesty;money-plant;satin-flower;moonwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Lunarieae;Lunaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Lunarieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lunaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin luna, moon, alluding to persistent, silvery, large fruit septum
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 226, 232, 239
|treatment_page=page 596
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not scapose; pubescent, glabrate, or glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched or branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal (soon withered, opposite), rosulate, long-petiolate, blade margins coarsely dentate; cauline (opposite or alternate), petiolate or (distal) sessile, blade margins coarsely dentate. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, several-flowered, rarely proximalmost flowers bracteate), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate or ascending, slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals cucullate, (median pair) linear or (lateral pair) broadly oblong-elliptic; petals obovate, (much longer than sepals), claw strongly differentiated from blade, (nearly as long as sepal, apex obtuse); stamens tetradynamous; filaments usually not dilated basally (or slender); anthers oblong or linear, (apex obtuse); nectar glands lateral, annular or semi-annular. <b>Fruits</b> (often pendulous), long-stipitate [rarely subsessile], oblong to suborbicular [orbicular, lanceolate-elliptic], not torulose, strongly latiseptate; valves each not veined, glabrous; replum rounded; septum (persistent), complete, (broad, shiny); style slender; stigma capitate, 2-lobed (lobes opposite replum, connivent or not). <b>Seeds</b> strongly flattened, broadly winged [not winged], reniform [orbicular]; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;introduced also in s South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Two species of <i>Lunaria</i> are ornamentals cultivated worldwide; <i>L. annua</i> often escapes from cultivation.</p><!--
--><p>Although R. C. Rollins (1993) listed <i>Lunaria</i> rediviva Linnaeus as “rarely found in long persisting populations outside of cultivation,” I have not seen any material that unequivocally proves that the species is naturalized in North America. It is easily distinguished from <i>L. annua</i> by being perennial with petiolate distalmost leaves and elliptic-lanceolate fruits acute at base and apex. By contrast, <i>L. annua</i> is biennial or, rarely, annual and has sessile distalmost leaves and suborbicular to broadly oblong fruits obtuse at base and apex.</p>
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name=Lunaria
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Europe;introduced also in s South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Lunarieae
|genus=Lunaria
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