Flora of North America species comparison

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Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae
Habit Annuals, biennials, or perennials [shrubs]; eglandular.
Cauline leaves

petiolate or sessile;

blade base auriculate or not, margins entire, dentate, serrate, or pinnately lobed.
Trichomes

absent or simple.
Racemes

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.
Flowers

actinomorphic;

sepals erect, ascending, or spreading, lateral pair saccate or not basally;

petals white, cream, yellow, pink, lilac, lavender, or purple, claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.
Fruits

silicles or siliques, dehiscent or indehiscent, usually segmented, usually latiseptate or terete (subterete or 4-angled in Erucastrum) [angustiseptate];

ovules (1–)2–276[–numerous] per ovary;

style usually distinct (absent in Cakile, obscure in Carrichtera, obsolete in Eruca);

stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed (sometimes slightly 2-lobed in Cakile).
Seeds

biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate;

cotyledons usually conduplicate, rarely accumbent or incumbent (in Cakile).

Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae
Distribution
North America; Eurasia; n Africa [Introduced widely]
Discussion

Genera 46, species ca. 245 (13 genera, 28 species in the flora).

The generic boundaries in Brassiceae are largely artificial, and the number of genera may be substantially reduced.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Parent taxa Brassicaceae
Subordinate taxa
Name authority de Candolle: Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 242. (1821)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 419. Treatment author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz.
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