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Habit Annuals, biennials, or perennials [subshrubs]; eglandular.
Cauline leaves

petiolate or sessile;

blade base not auriculate [auriculate], margins entire, dentate, or lobed.

Trichomes

stalked to subsessile, forked, stellate, or dendritic [simple].

Racemes

ebracteate, elongated [not elongated] in fruit.

Flowers

usually actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic;

sepals spreading or erect [ascending], lateral pair seldom saccate basally;

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

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

Fruits

silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, terete, latiseptate, or angustiseptate;

ovules [4–]16–250[–numerous] per ovary;

style distinct or obscure;

stigma entire.

Seeds

biseriate or uniseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

Brassicaceae tribe Halimolobeae

Distribution
North America; Mexico; Central America; South America
Discussion

Genera 5, species 39 (2 genera, 6 species in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 557.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae
Subordinate taxa
Name authority Al-Shehbaz: Pl. Syst. Evol. 259: 111. (2006)
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