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|accepted_name=Lunaria
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 653. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 294. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Honesty;money-plant;satin-flower;moonwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Lunarieae;Lunaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Lunarieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lunaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin luna, moon, alluding to persistent, silvery, large fruit septum
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 226, 232, 239
|treatment_page=page 596
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not scapose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="whole_organism architecture;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form">pubescent, glabrate, or glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>erect, unbranched or branched distally.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>basal and cauline;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf position;leaf position;leaf architecture;leaf architecture">petiolate or sessile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="basal leaf arrangement;basal leaf architecture;blade margin architecture or shape">basal (soon withered, opposite), rosulate, long-petiolate, blade margins coarsely dentate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="cauline leaf architecture;cauline leaf architecture;blade margin architecture or shape">cauline (opposite or alternate), petiolate or (distal) sessile, blade margins coarsely dentate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties=""><b>Racemes </b>(corymbose, several-flowered, rarely proximalmost flowers bracteate), considerably elongated in fruit.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="raceme length;raceme arrangement;raceme orientation;raceme size"><b>Fruiting </b>pedicels divaricate or ascending, slender.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="sepal shape;sepal shape;sepal shape"><b>Flowers:</b> sepals cucullate, (median pair) linear or (lateral pair) broadly oblongelliptic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="petal shape;claw variability">petals obovate, (much longer than sepals), claw strongly differentiated from blade, (nearly as long as sepal, apex obtuse);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="stamen architecture">stamens tetradynamous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="filament shape">filaments usually not dilated basally (or slender);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="anther shape;anther shape">anthers oblong or linear, (apex obtuse);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="nectar gland position;nectar gland shape;nectar gland shape">nectar glands lateral, annular or semiannular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit architecture"><b>Fruits </b>(often pendulous), long-stipitate [rarely subsessile], oblong to suborbicular [orbicular, lanceolate-elliptic], not torulose, strongly latiseptate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="valve architecture;valve pubescence">valves each not veined, glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="replum shape">replum rounded;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="septum architecture">septum (persistent), complete, (broad, shiny);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="style size">style slender;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape;stigma shape">stigma capitate, 2-lobed (lobes opposite replum, connivent or not).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="seed shape;seed architecture;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>strongly flattened, broadly winged [not winged], reniform [orbicular];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s22" data-properties="seed-coat coating">seed-coat not mucilaginous when wetted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s23" data-properties="">cotyledons accumbent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s24" data-properties="cotyledon arrangement;x chromosome quantity">x = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;also in s South America
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Two species of Lunaria are ornamentals cultivated worldwide; L. annua often escapes from cultivation.</p><!--
--><p>Although R. C. Rollins (1993) listed Lunaria rediviva Linnaeus as “rarely found in long persisting populations outside of cultivation,” I have not seen any material that unequivocally proves that the species is naturalized in North America. It is easily distinguished from L. annua by being perennial with petiolate distalmost leaves and elliptic-lanceolate fruits acute at base and apex. By contrast, L. annua is biennial or, rarely, annual and has sessile distalmost leaves and suborbicular to broadly oblong fruits obtuse at base and apex.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lunaria
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Europe;also in s South America
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Lunarieae
|genus=Lunaria
|anther shape=linear;oblong
|basal leaf architecture=long-petiolate
|basal leaf arrangement=rosulate
|blade margin architecture or shape=dentate;dentate
|cauline leaf architecture=sessile;petiolate
|claw variability=differentiated
|cotyledon arrangement=accumbent
|filament shape=dilated
|fruit architecture=latiseptate;long-stipitate
|fruit shape=not torulose;oblong;suborbicular
|leaf architecture=sessile;petiolate
|leaf position=cauline;basal
|nectar gland position=lateral
|nectar gland shape=semiannular;annular
|petal shape=obovate
|raceme arrangement=divaricate
|raceme length=elongated
|raceme orientation=ascending
|raceme size=slender
|replum shape=rounded
|seed architecture=winged
|seed shape=reniform;flattened
|seed-coat coating=mucilaginous
|sepal shape=oblongelliptic;linear;cucullate
|septum architecture=complete
|stamen architecture=tetradynamous
|stem architecture=branched;unbranched
|stem orientation=erect
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|stigma shape=2-lobed
|style size=slender
|valve architecture=not veined
|valve pubescence=glabrous
|whole_organism architecture=not scapose
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism pubescence=glabrous;glabrate;glabrous;glabrate;pubescent
|x chromosome quantity=15
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