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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
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Brassicales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Cruciferae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Tribe:
Camelineae
()
- Genus:
Arabidopsis
()
- (DC.) Heynh.
- Rockcress
- Specific epithet:
halleri
- (Matsum.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
- Subspecies:
subsp. gemmifera
- Botanical name: - Arabidopsis halleri subsp. gemmifera (Matsum.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz (Matsum.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
- Subspecies:
subsp. gemmifera
- Specific epithet:
halleri
- (Matsum.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
- Genus:
Arabidopsis
(
- Tribe:
Camelineae
(
- Family:
Cruciferae
(
- Order:
Brassicales
(
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
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.
Identifiers
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 997557-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3823729
Footnotes
- 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]
