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|accepted_name=Armoracia
|accepted_authority=P. Gaertner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Oekon. Fl. Wetterau
|place=2: 426. 1800
|year=1800
}}
|common_names=Horseradish
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Cardamineae;Armoracia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Cardamineae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Armoracia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Ancient Greek name for horseradish, or perhaps Celtic ar, near, mor, sea, and rich, against, alluding to habitat
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 226, 232, 238
|treatment_page=page 459
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; (aquatic or of mesic habitats, with rootstocks); not scapose; glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate and sessile; basal rosulate, long-petiolate, blade margins crenate or pinnatifid [entire]; cauline petiolate or sessile distally, blade margins crenate, serrate, pinnatifid, pinnatisect [laciniate]. <b>Racemes</b> ([often corymbose-paniculate], several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels ascending, divaricate, or slightly reflexed, slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals spreading or ascending, ovate or oblong, lateral pair not saccate basally, (glabrous); petals white, obovate, or oblanceolate [spatulate, oblong], claw somewhat differentiated from blade (relatively short, apex obtuse); stamens slightly tetradynamous; filaments slightly dilated basally; anthers ovate [oblong or linear], (apex obtuse); nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens, median glands present. <b>Fruits</b>: silicles, sessile, oblong, ovate, elliptic, or orbicular, angustiseptate; valves each not veined; replum rounded; septum perforated or reduced to a rim; ovules 8–12[–20] per ovary; style obsolete or distinct; stigma capitate, (sometimes 2-lobed). <b>Seeds</b> biseriate, plump, not winged, ovate [oblong]; seed coat (punctate) not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;s Europe;Asia (Russian Far East;Siberia).
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fosberg1965a
|text=Fosberg, F. R. 1965. Nomenclature of the horseradish (Cruciferae). Baileya 13: 1–4.
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|id=lawrence1971a
|text=Lawrence, G. H. M. 1971. The horseradish Armoracia rusticana. Herbarist 37: 17–19.
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name=Armoracia
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=P. Gaertner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=c;s Europe;Asia (Russian Far East;Siberia).
|introduced=true
|reference=fosberg1965a;lawrence1971a
|publication title=Oekon. Fl. Wetterau
|publication year=1800
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Cardamineae
|genus=Armoracia
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