Subularia

taxobox

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image_caption = Illustration of "Subularia aquatica"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Brassicales
familia = Brassicaceae
genus = "Subularia"
genus_authority = L. (1753)
type_species = "S. aquatica"cite web
url = http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Subularia
title = "Subularia"
accessdate = 2008-05-08
date = 1996-02-09
format = HTML
work = Index Nominum Genericorum
publisher = International Association for Plant Taxonomy]
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Subularia aquatica" L. "Subularia monticola" A.Br. ex Schweinf.cite web
url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/genre.php?langue=an&id=5049
title = "Subularia" L.
accessdate = 2008-05-08
format = HTML
work = African Plants Database
publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica ] "Subularia texana" B.L. Rob.cite web
url = http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50004659
title = "Subularia texana" B.L. Rob.
accessdate = 2008-05-08
author = Tropicos
format = HTML
publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden]
synonyms = "Consana" Adanson|

"Subularia" is a genus in the mustard family, Brassicaceae. "Subularia" species are annual herbs that grow in moist or even flooded soils. Primary representatives of the genus are "Subularia aquatica", which is widespread in North America; and "Subularia monticola", from Africa.

Description

;Stems and leaves: Hairless, with fleshy leaves all growing from the base of the stem, arranged in little roselike clusters. Individual leaves are fleshy, very narrow and with an evenly continuous edge. ;Flowers: Few flowered in elongated clusters of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first. Sepals ascending to erect, white petals, spatulate to oblong, not clearly clawed and sometimes lacking. ;Fruits: Narrow elongated seed capsule which is peculiar to the family Brassicaceae.cite book
coauthors = K. Kubitzki, K.U. Kramer, P.S. Green, J. G. Rohwer, V. Bittrich, H. Huber, J. W. Kadereit, C. Jeffrey
title = The families and genera of vascular plants
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=I8oMV1lsS6kC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&source=web&ots=yRLaPxp4aL&sig=kmNYV0Agwj-OmM7qOYJO-YoO9SY&hl=en
publisher = Springer Science+Business Media
accessdate = 2008-05-08
isbn = 3540428739
chapter = Cruciferae
chapterurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=I8oMV1lsS6kC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&source=web&ots=yRLaPxp4aL&sig=kmNYV0Agwj-OmM7qOYJO-YoO9SY&hl=en]

References

External links

*1913
*cite web
url = http://www.linnean-online.org/7420/
title = LINN 822.2 "Subularia" sp. (Herb Linn)
accessdate = 2008-05-08
format = HTML
work = The Linnean Collections
publisher = Linnean Society of London
*cite web
url = http://www.botanicus.org/page/358663
title = Species plantarum :exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas...
accessdate = 2008-05-08
last = Linné,
first = Carl von
authorlink = Carl Linnaeus
date = 1753
format = HTML
publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden - Tropicos
*ITIS|ID=23022|taxon="Subularia"|year=2008|date=7 May
*cite web
url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/html/genus.pl?11711
title = Genus: "Subularia" L.
accessdate = 2008-05-08
author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network
date = 2006-03-31
format = HTML
work = Taxonomy for Plants
publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland
*cite web
url = http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SUBUL
title = PLANTS Profile, "Subularia"
accessdate = 2008-05-08
author = Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
authorlink = Natural Resources Conservation Service
format = HTML
work = The PLANTS Database
publisher = United States Department of Agriculture