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Article: Floral Development in the Capparales: Lepidium virginicum L. (Brassicaceae) and Tropaeolum majus L. (Tropaeloaceae). (Botany & Plant Ecology).(Brief Article)
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- Michigan Academician
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Floral Development in the Capparales: Lepidium virginicum L. (Brassicaceae) and Tropaeolum majus L. (Tropaeloaceae). Katherine Kantz and Christine M. Gwinn, Grand Valley State University, Biology Department, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI 49401
We studied floral development in Lepidium virginicum (Poor-man's pepper) and Tropaeolum majus (Nasturtium) as part of a larger project to understand the evolution of floral form and development in the order Capparales. In L. virginicum, four sepal primordia arise in a helical pattern. Next four petal primordia arise unidirectionally from the abaxial to the adaxial side alternate with the sepals. Then two stamen primordia ...