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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

Coincya monensis

Distribution
from USDA
w Europe; nw Africa [Introduced in North America]
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from FNA
MI; NC; PA; w Europe; Africa (Morocco)
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Discussion

Species 6 (1 in the flora).

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

Subspecies 5 (1 in the flora).

Coincya monensis is a variable species, within which, in spite of lack of clear discontinuities in variation patterns, E. A. Leadlay and V. H. Heywood (1990) recognized five subspecies and divided subsp. recurvata into four varieties, not recognized here.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 429. Author: Suzanne I. Warwick. FNA vol. 7, p. 430.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae > Coincya
Subordinate taxa
C. monensis
C. monensis subsp. recurvata
Synonyms Brassicella, Hutera, Rhynchosinapis Sisymbrium monense
Name authority Porta & Rigo ex Rouy: Naturaliste, sér. 2, 13: 248. (1891) (Linnaeus) Greuter & Burdet: Willdenowia 13: 87. (1983)
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