Coincya |
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star-mustard |
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Habit | Annuals [biennials or perennials]; not scapose; glabrous or hispid. |
Stems | usually erect, rarely prostrate, [unbranched] branched basally. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiolate; basal rosulate, blade margins lobed, pinnatipartite to lyrate, or 1- or 2-pinnatisect, [entire or dentate]; cauline blade similar to basal, (base not auriculate). |
Racemes | (corymbose), greatly elongated in fruit. |
Flowers | sepals erect, connivent, obtuse [narrowly oblong], lateral pair usually saccate basally, (setulose proximal to apex); petals yellow (usually with dark brown, maroon, or purple veins), obovate, claw differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse); stamens tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally, slender; anthers linear, (base sagittate); nectar glands: lateral glands lobed, median glands usually absent. |
Fruiting pedicels | usually ascending to patent [reflexed], rarely erect, slender. |
Fruits | siliques, dehiscent, sessile or subsessile, segments 2, linear, torulose, terete; (terminal segment 1–6-seeded, indehiscent, ensiform to cylindrical, linear, smooth); valves each 3(–5)-veined, glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 4–100 per ovary; stigma capitate, 2-lobed. |
Seeds | uniseriate, plump, not winged, subglobose [globose, oblong]; seed coat (reticulate), slightly mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate. |
x | = 12. |
Coincya |
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Distribution |
w Europe; nw Africa [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Species 6 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 429. |
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Synonyms | Brassicella, Hutera, Rhynchosinapis |
Name authority | Porta & Rigo ex Rouy: Naturaliste, sér. 2, 13: 248. (1891) |
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