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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

Distribution
from USDA
w Europe; nw Africa [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 6 (1 in the flora).

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 429. Author: Suzanne I. Warwick.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae
Subordinate taxa
C. monensis
Synonyms Brassicella, Hutera, Rhynchosinapis
Name authority Porta & Rigo ex Rouy: Naturaliste, sér. 2, 13: 248. (1891)
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