Flora of North America species comparison

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Brassicaceae tribe Buniadeae
Habit Annuals, biennials, or perennials; glandular (glands multicellular on multiseriate stalks).
Cauline leaves

sessile or subsessile [petiolate];

blade base not auriculate, margins dentate or entire.
Trichomes

stalked, forked, or simple.
Racemes

ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.
Flowers

actinomorphic;

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

petals yellow, claw usually present [absent], often distinct;

filaments unappendaged [winged];

pollen 3-colpate.
Fruits

silicles [siliques], indehiscent [dehiscent], unsegmented, terete or 4-angled [latiseptate];

ovules 2–4[–numerous] per ovary;

style obsolete or distinct;

stigma entire [2-lobed].
Seeds

aseriate [biseriate];

cotyledons spirolobal.

Brassicaceae tribe Buniadeae
Distribution
Europe; Asia; Africa [Introduced in North America]
Discussion

Genus 1, species 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 443.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae
Subordinate taxa
Name authority de Candolle: Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 245. (1821)
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