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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Aubrieta
|accepted_authority=Adanson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fam. Pl.
|place=2: 420. 1763
|year=1763
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Arabideae;Aubrieta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Arabideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aubrieta]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Claude Aubriet, 1663–1743, French artist
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 226, 237, 243
|treatment_page=page 268
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="">Perennials;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="">(often loosely pulvinate or cespitose, caudex many-branched);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="">not scapose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="whole-organism architecture;whole-organism pubescence;whole-organism duration;trichome arrangement or shape;trichome architecture;trichome architecture;trichome arrangement">pubescent, trichomes stellate, short-stalked or sessile, mixed with coarser, stalked, forked, and simple ones.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>erect to decumbent, branched basally, (slender).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>basal and cauline;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="leaf position;leaf position;leaf architecture;leaf architecture">petiolate or sessile [subsessile];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="basal leaf arrangement;basal leaf architecture;blade margin architecture or shape;blade margin architecture or shape">basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire or dentate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="cauline leaf architecture;cauline leaf architecture;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape">cauline petiolate or sessile [subsessile], blade (base not auriculate), margins entire or dentate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties=""><b>Racemes </b>(few to several-flowered), elongated in fruit.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="raceme length;raceme orientation;raceme arrangement;raceme size"><b>Fruiting </b>pedicels erect to divaricate, slender.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="sepal orientation;sepal shape;sepal position;sepal architecture or shape"><b>Flowers:</b> sepals erect, oblong, lateral pair saccate basally, (glabrous or pubescent);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="petal coloration;petal coloration;petal shape">petals usually purple to violet, rarely white [pink], obovate [spatulate], (apex obtuse);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="stamen architecture">stamens tetradynamous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="filament architecture">filaments narrowly winged, (lateral pair with toothed appendage);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="anther shape">anthers oblong [ovate];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="nectar gland position;nectar gland architecture or shape;nectar gland position">nectar glands lateral, semiannular, extrastaminal.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="silicle architecture;silicle shape;silicle shape;silicle shape;silicle architecture"><b>Fruits </b>siliques or, rarely, silicles, sessile, ellipsoid, [linear, oblong, or elliptic], not torulose, terete or latiseptate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="valve pubescence;valve pubescence;valve pubescence;midvein fusion">valves each with distinct midvein, pubescent or, rarely, glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="replum shape">replum rounded;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="septum architecture;septum architecture">septum usually complete, sometimes perforate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="">ovules 10–40 per ovary;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s22" data-properties="ovule quantity">(style persistent);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s23" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape">stigma capitate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s24" data-properties="seed arrangement;seed shape;seed architecture;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>biseriate, flattened, not winged, ovoid [elliptical];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s25" data-properties="seed-coat coating">seed-coat not mucilaginous when wetted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s26" data-properties="cotyledon arrangement">cotyledons accumbent.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Europe;sw Asia;nw Africa
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 15 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Aubrieta is taxonomically challenging and is centered primarily in Greece and Turkey. The delimitation of species is often difficult, possibly because species have resulted from hybridization.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=mattfield1939a
|text=Mattfield, J. 1939. The species of the genus Aubrieta Adanson. Quart. Bull. Alpine Gard. Soc. 7: 157–181, 217–227.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=rollins1982b
|text=Rollins, R. C. 1982. Another alien in the California flora. Rhodora 84: 153–154.
}}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Aubrieta
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Adanson
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Calif.;Europe;sw Asia;nw Africa
|introduced=true
|reference=mattfield1939a;rollins1982b
|publication title=Fam. Pl.
|publication year=1763
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V7/V7_359.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Arabideae
|genus=Aubrieta
|anther shape=oblong
|basal leaf architecture=petiolate
|basal leaf arrangement=rosulate
|blade margin architecture or shape=dentate;entire
|cauline leaf architecture=sessile;petiolate
|cotyledon arrangement=accumbent
|filament architecture=winged
|leaf architecture=sessile;petiolate
|leaf position=cauline;basal
|margin architecture or shape=dentate;entire
|midvein fusion=distinct
|nectar gland architecture or shape=semiannular
|nectar gland position=extrastaminal;lateral
|ovule quantity=10;40
|petal coloration=white;usually purple;violet
|petal shape=obovate
|raceme arrangement=divaricate
|raceme length=elongated
|raceme orientation=erect
|raceme size=slender
|replum shape=rounded
|seed architecture=not winged
|seed arrangement=biseriate
|seed shape=ovoid;flattened
|seed-coat coating=mucilaginous
|sepal architecture or shape=saccate
|sepal orientation=erect
|sepal position=lateral
|sepal shape=oblong
|septum architecture=perforate;complete
|silicle architecture=latiseptate;sessile
|silicle shape=terete;not torulose;ellipsoid
|stamen architecture=tetradynamous
|stem architecture=branched
|stem orientation=erect;decumbent
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|trichome architecture=sessile;short-stalked
|trichome arrangement=mixed
|trichome arrangement or shape=stellate
|valve pubescence=glabrous;,;pubescent
|whole-organism architecture=not scapose
|whole-organism duration=perennial
|whole-organism pubescence=pubescent
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