Planodes virginicum (L.) Greene
Family: Brassicaceae
Pertinent Synonyms & Notes (particularly those used in California; go to GRIN for other synonyms)
Sibara virginica (L.) Rollins, Cardamine virginica L.
Pertinent Common Names (particularly those used in California; go to GRIN for other common names)
Virginia winged rockcress
Primary Disseminule Type
seed
Description (diagnostics are in brown)
Fruit a multi-seeded dehiscent silique, linear, straight or slightly curved, flattened and slightly torulose, glabrous, (1)1.5–2.5(3) cm long x (1)1.5–2 mm wide, without conspicuous beak. Style remnant 0.2–0.8 mm long.
Seed ± round in outline, compressed, cross-section lens-shaped to fusiform, 0.9–1.2 mm long x 0.8–1.1 mm wide x 0.15–0.3 mm thick. Surface orangish-brown with a ca. 0.1 mm wide whitish-brown wing around the perimeter, shiny (under magnification), honeycombed, reticulations and interspaces stigmaticose, with a moderately distinct (but often short) longitudinal groove between the radicle and cotyledons on one or both faces of the seed.
Hilum in a shallow notch, usually with funicular remnant.
Embryo bent, cotyledons accumbent, endosperm lacking.
Risk Assessment (codes in yellow or red indicate cause for concern; assessments are current as of mid-2011; click AUQP, NZBORIC, or NZBPI for access to the most recent versions of these databases and possible assessment changes)
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