Flora of North America species comparison

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Brassicaceae tribe Chorisporeae
Habit Annuals or perennials; usually glandular, rarely eglandular (glands multicellular on multiseriate stalks).
Cauline leaves

(sometimes absent);

petiolate;

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

simple or absent.
Racemes

usually ebracteate, usually elongated in fruit.
Flowers

actinomorphic;

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

petals white, pink, lavender, or purple [yellow], claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.
Fruits

usually siliques [silicles], dehiscent (or breaking into 1-seeded segments), rarely indehiscent, segmented or not, terete or latiseptate;

ovules [2–]5–50[–numerous] per ovary;

style distinct;

stigma strongly 2-lobed [entire].
Seeds

uniseriate [aseriate];

cotyledons accumbent.

Brassicaceae tribe Chorisporeae
Distribution
North America; Europe; Asia; n Africa
Discussion

Genera 3, species 47 (2 genera, 5 species in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 510.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae
Subordinate taxa
Name authority Ledebour_ C. A. Meyer & Bunge: in C. F. von Ledebour, Fl. Altaica 3: 104. (1831)
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