Flora of North America species comparison

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

petiolate or sessile;

blade base not auriculate, margins usually entire.
Trichomes

short-stalked or sessile and stellate, or distinctly stalked and subdendritic or forked, sometimes mixed with simple ones.
Racemes

ebracteate [bracteate], often elongated in fruit.
Flowers

actinomorphic;

sepals erect to spreading, lateral pair seldom saccate basally;

petals white or yellow [orange, pink, or purple], claw present, usually distinct;

filaments appendaged, winged (toothed), or unappendaged;

pollen 3-colpate.
Fruits

silicles, dehiscent, unsegmented, latiseptate or terete;

ovules 2–16(–20) per ovary;

style distinct;

stigma usually entire, rarely 2-lobed.
Seeds

biseriate or aseriate, rarely uniseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent, rarely oblique.

Brassicaceae tribe Alysseae
Distribution
North America; Eurasia; n Africa
Discussion

Genera 13, species ca. 255 (3 genera, 9 species in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 247.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae
Subordinate taxa
Name authority de Candolle: Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 231. (1821)
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