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|accepted_name=Matthiola
|accepted_authority=W. T. Aiton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|place=4: 119. 1812
|year=1812
}}
|common_names=Stock
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lonchophora
|authority=Durieu
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Anchonieae;Matthiola
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Anchonieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Matthiola]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Pietro Andrea Matthioli, 1500–1577, Italian artist and botanist
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 226, 235, 242
|treatment_page=page 253
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> biennials, or perennials [subshrubs]; (base sometimes woody); not scapose; (glandular or not), pubescent, trichomes stalked, stellate or dendritic, or, rarely, forked or simple. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending or decumbent, unbranched or branched. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins entire, dentate, or pinnatisect. Racemes (corymbose, several-flowered). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate or ascending [erect], slender or stout. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals (connivent), oblong to lanceolate or linear, lateral pair strongly saccate basally; petals yellow, white, pink, purple, violet, or brown [yellowish green], broadly obovate, spatulate, oblong, or linear (much longer than sepals, flat or circinately rolled inwards, margins crisped or not), claw differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse, rounded, subacute, or emarginate); stamens strongly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers linear [oblong], (apex obtuse); nectar glands (4 and) lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen, or (2 and) semiannular, intrastaminal. <b>Fruits</b> sessile, linear, subtorulose [torulose], often straight, terete or latiseptate; valves each with prominent midvein, pubescent; replum rounded; septum complete, (often opaque, veinless); style obsolete or distinct; stigma conical, 2-lobed (lobes prominent, distinct or connate, decurrent, with or without 2 or 3 hornlike appendages). <b>Seeds</b> flattened, narrowly winged or not winged, oblong, ovate, suborbicular, or orbicular; seed coat (minutely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Asia;n;e Africa;Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands);introduced also in Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>species ca. 50 (2 in the flora)</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits compressed, 3-6 mm wide, without stigmatic horns; cauline leaf blade margins entire or repand, rarely sinuate; fruiting pedicels (6-)10-20(-25) mm, thinner than fruit; petals 7-15 mm wide.
|[[Matthiola incana|Matthiola incana]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits terete, 1-2 mm wide, with 2 stigmatic horns; cauline leaf blade margins dentate to pinnatifid, rarely entire; fruiting pedicels (0.5-)1-2(-3) mm, nearly as thick as fruit; petals 2-5 mm wide.
|[[Matthiola longipetala|Matthiola longipetala]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Matthiola
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=W. T. Aiton
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Lonchophora
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Europe;Asia;n;e Africa;Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands);introduced also in Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|publication year=1812
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_331.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Anchonieae
|genus=Matthiola
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