Subularia

{{Short description|Genus of herbs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Subularia aquatica Sturm30.jpg

|image_caption = Illustration of Subularia aquatica

|taxon = Subularia

|authority = L. (1753)

|type_species = Subularia aquatica{{cite web

| url = https://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Subularia

| title = Subularia

| access-date = 2008-05-08

| date = 1996-02-09

| work = Index Nominum Genericorum

| publisher = International Association for Plant Taxonomy

}}

|type_species_authority = L.

|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.

|access-date = 2008-05-08

|work = African Plants Database

|publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica

}}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}

Subularia texana B.L. Rob.{{cite web

| url = http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50004659

| title = Subularia texana B.L. Rob.

| access-date = 2008-05-08

| author = Tropicos

| publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden

}}

|synonyms = Consana Adanson

}}

Subularia is a genus of plants in the family Brassicaceae. Subularia species are annual herbs that grow in moist or even flooded soils. There are only two species of the genus: Subularia aquatica, which is widespread in North America and Europe; and Subularia monticola, from Africa mountains. Awlwort is a common name for plants in this genus.{{PLANTS|id=SUBUL|taxon=Subularia|accessdate=4 December 2015}}

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

|author1=K. Kubitzki |author2=K.U. Kramer |author3=P.S. Green |author4=J. G. Rohwer |author5=V. Bittrich |author6=H. Huber |author7=J. W. Kadereit |author8=C. Jeffrey | title = The families and genera of vascular plants

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I8oMV1lsS6kC&pg=PA163

| publisher = Springer Science+Business Media

| access-date = 2008-05-08

| isbn = 3-540-42873-9

| chapter = Cruciferae

| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I8oMV1lsS6kC&pg=PA163

|date=2002-09-12 }}

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