Bunias vulgaris

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Description

Genus Bunias

Herbs annual , biennial, or perennial with a caudex . Trichomes stalked forked and/or simple ; glandular multicellular papillae present or absent. Basal leaves petiolate , often not rosulate, simple, entire, pinnatifid , or lyrate. Cauline leaves sessile or subsessile above, cuneate, attenuate, or auriculate , entire or dentate . Racemes ebracteate , elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels divaricate . Sepals oblong , ascending or spreading , base of lateral pair not saccate , margin membranous. Petals yellow or white, ascending, longer than sepals; blade obovate , apex obtuse ; claw distinct . Stamens 6, tetradynamous ; filaments dilated or not at base; anthers ovate or oblong, obtuse at apex. Nectar glands confluent and subtending bases of all stamens; median glands present. Ovules 2-4 per ovary. Fruit indehiscent, woody, nutletlike silicles , oblong, ovoid , or subglobose, terete , 4-angled, or with 4 cristate wings , sessile, readily detached from pedicel, 1-4-loculed; replum not distinct; septum subwoody or absent; style obsolete or slender and to 6 mm, filiform or subconical; stigma capitate, entire. Seeds wingless, oblong, suborbicular , or ovoid, plump or flattened; seed coat smooth ; cotyledons spirolobal.

Three species: N Africa, E and SW Asia, Europe; two species in China.[1]

Taxonomy

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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: Anchonieae ()
        Genus: Bunias () - C. Linnaeus, 1753 - Wartycabbage
        Specific epithet: vulgaris - Andrz. ex Steud.
        Botanical name: - Bunias vulgaris Andrz. ex Steud.