Arabidopsis cebennensis

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Genus Arabidopsis

Herbs annual , biennial, or perennial with stolons or woody caudex . Trichomes simple , mixed with stalked , 1-3-forked ones. Stems erect or decumbent , often several from base , usually glabrous above. Basal leaves rosulate, entire, toothed , or pinnately lobed . Cauline leaves petiolate or subsessile , entire, dentate , or rarely lyrate. Racemes few to several flowered, ebracteate . Fruiting pedicels ascending or divaricate or slightly reflexed . Sepals oblong , erect or ascending, glabrous or pubescent , base of lateral pair subsaccate or not. Petals white, pink, or purple; blade obovate , spatulate , or oblanceolate , apex obtuse or emarginate ; claw distinct or not. Stamens 6, erect, slightly tetradynamous ; filaments not dilated basally; anthers oblong, obtuse. Nectar glands confluent , subtending bases of filaments. Ovules 15-80 per ovary. Fruit dehiscent siliques, linear or cylindric , terete or flattened and latiseptate , shortly stipitate or subsessile; valves papery , veinless or midvein distinct, glabrous, smooth or somewhat torulose ; replum rounded ; septum complete ; style obsolete or to 1 mm; stigma capitate, entire. Seeds numerous , uniseriate , wingless or margined , oblong or ellipsoid , plump or flattened; seed coat minutely reticulate , mucilaginous or not when wetted; cotyledons accumbent or rarely incumbent .

Nine species: E and N Asia, Europe, North America; three species in China.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Arabidopsis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. salsuginea (Saltwater Cress) · A. thaliana (Mouse-Ear Cress)

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Further Reading

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Brassicaceae species checklist and database. Release date: December 10, 2009
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5959231
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Mus-324
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:997553-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 997553-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1216656

Footnotes

1. Tai-yien Cheo, Lianli Lu, Guang Yang, Ihsan Al-Shehbaz & Vladimir Dorofeev "Arabidopsis". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 120. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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