Hesperis L.
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Plazi |
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Hesperis L. |
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20. Hesperis L. 1
Biennial to perennial herbs; glabrous or indumentum of one or more of the following kinds of hairs: unbranched, branched, glandular. Sepals erect, the inner saccate at base; petals yellow, purple or white, long-clawed. Fruit a siliqua; valves with a distinct median vein and lateral veins; style short; stigma deeply 2-lobed, the lobes erect, free. Seeds in 1 row in each loculus; radicle incumbent.
Literature: V. Borbas, Magyar Bot. Lapok 1:161 et seq. (1902), 2: 12-23 (1903). N. Tzvelev, Not. Syst. (Leningrad) 19: 114-55 (1959).
1 Flowers yellow, sometimes suffused with purple
2 Lower pedicels usually 40-90 mm in fruit; petal-limb 2-4 mm wide, linear-lanceolate 1. tristis
2 Lower pedicels usually less than 20 mm in fruit; petal-limb 3-9 mm wide, usually ovate-oblong 2. laciniata
1 Flowers purple, pink or white
3 Stem hispid; pedicels usually much shorter than the calyx 2. laciniata
3Stem not hispid; pedicels ±equalling calyx (3-14). matronalis group
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