View source for Tropidocarpum

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Tropidocarpum
|accepted_authority=Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Icon. Pl.
|place=1: plate 43. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Agallis
|authority=Philippi
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Twisselmannia
|authority=Al-Shehbaz
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Descurainieae;Tropidocarpum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Descurainieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tropidocarpum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek tropis, keel, and karpos, fruit, alluding to fruit shape
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 234, 236, 240, 242
|treatment_page=page 531
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; not scapose; pubescent or glabrous, trichomes simple, these mixed with smaller, short-stalked, Y-shaped, forked ones, rarely rays branched. <b>Stems</b> (usually several from base, rarely simple), usually ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, rarely erect, unbranched or branched [basally] distally, (slender). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal (withered by fruiting), not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins pinnatifid or pinnatisect; cauline sessile or subsessile, blade margins pinnatifid. <b>Racemes</b> (several-flowered, bracteate throughout), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels erect, ascending, or divaricate, slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect to ascending, oblong, (glabrous or pubescent); petals yellow, sometimes with purple tinge, oblanceolate, obovate, or spatulate, (slightly longer than sepals), claw undifferentiated from blade; stamens slightly tetradynamous; filaments sometimes slightly dilated basally; anthers ovate, (apex obtuse); nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens. <b>Fruits</b> siliques or silicles, sessile, linear, oblong, or obdeltoid, smooth, strongly angustiseptate; valves [(2 or) 4 in <i>T. capparideum</i>, keeled], not veined, (thin-leathery throughout, or distally subwoody or thick-leathery and tuberculate-rugose), pubescent; replum rounded; septum complete or absent; ovules 4–70 per ovary; style distinct, (slender); stigma capitate. <b>Seeds</b> uniseriate or (in 4-valved fruits) 4-seriate, not winged, oblong; seed coat (reticulate), mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;c Mexico;South America (c Chile).
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Tropidocarpum</i> lanatum (Barnéoud) Al-Shehbaz & R. A. Price is known from central Chile.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=robinson1896a
|text=Robinson, B. L. 1896. The fruit of Tropidocarpum. Erythea 4: 108–119.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=shehbaz2001a
|text=Shehbaz, I. A. and R. A. Price. 2001. The Chilean Agallis and Californian Tropidocarpum (Brassicaceae) are congeneric. Novon 11: 292–293.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=shehbaz2003a
|text=Shehbaz, I. A. 2003c. A synopsis of Tropidocarpum (Brassicaceae). Novon 13: 392–395.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits obdeltoid, valves thick-leathery and tuberculate-rugose distally, puberulent, trichomes antrorse; ovules 4-8 per ovary.
|[[Tropidocarpum californicum|Tropidocarpum californicum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits linear or oblong, valves thin-leathery and smooth distally, usually pubescent or puberulent, rarely glabrescent, trichomes retrorse; ovules 25-70 per ovary
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Fruits narrowly linear, (25-)30-60(-70) × 1.5-2(-3) mm, length 13-46 times width; valves 2.
|[[Tropidocarpum gracile|Tropidocarpum gracile]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Fruits oblong, (5-)9-20 × (3-)4-5 mm, length (1.6-)2.8-5 times width; valves (2 or) 4.
|[[Tropidocarpum capparideum|Tropidocarpum capparideum]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Tropidocarpum
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Hooker
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Agallis;Twisselmannia
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Calif.;c Mexico;South America (c Chile).
|reference=robinson1896a;shehbaz2001a;shehbaz2003a
|publication title=Icon. Pl.
|publication year=1836
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_840.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Descurainieae
|genus=Tropidocarpum
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