Flora of North America species comparison

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Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
Habit Annuals, biennials, perennials, or subshrubs; eglandular.
Cauline leaves

petiolate, sessile, or subsessile;

blade base usually not auriculate (except Paysonia), margins entire, dentate, or sinuate.
Trichomes

usually short-stalked, subsessile, or sessile, sometimes long-stalked, stellate, scalelike, subdendritic, or forked, sometimes mixed with simple ones.
Racemes

ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.
Flowers

actinomorphic;

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

petals white, yellow, lavender, purple, violet, orange, or brown [pink], claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen (3 or) 4–11-colpate.
Fruits

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

ovules 2–100 per ovary;

style usually distinct;

stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed.
Seeds

biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
Distribution
North America; Mexico; South America; Asia (ne Russia)
Discussion

Genera 7, species ca. 130 (7 genera, 105 species in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 604.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae
Subordinate taxa
Name authority B. L. Robinson: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(1,1): 100. (1895)
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