Coincya monensis
Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae
star-mustard
petiolate or sessile;
blade base auriculate or not, margins entire, dentate, serrate, or pinnately lobed.
absent or simple.
usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.
actinomorphic;
sepals erect, ascending, or spreading, lateral pair saccate or not basally;
petals white, cream, yellow, pink, lilac, lavender, or purple, claw present, often distinct;
filaments unappendaged, not winged;
pollen 3-colpate.
silicles or siliques, dehiscent or indehiscent, usually segmented, usually latiseptate or terete (subterete or 4-angled in Erucastrum) [angustiseptate];
ovules (1–)2–276[–numerous] per ovary;
style usually distinct (absent in Cakile, obscure in Carrichtera, obsolete in Eruca);
stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed (sometimes slightly 2-lobed in Cakile).
biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate;
cotyledons usually conduplicate, rarely accumbent or incumbent (in Cakile).
Coincya monensis
Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae
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.)
Genera 46, species ca. 245 (13 genera, 28 species in the flora).
The generic boundaries in Brassiceae are largely artificial, and the number of genera may be substantially reduced.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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