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comb-leaf

Habit Perennials; (cespitose); not scapose; pubescent at least basally, trichomes dendritic, mixed with fewer, 2-rayed and larger, simple ones.
Stems

erect to ascending, branched distally.

Leaves

cauline;

petiolate or subsessile;

blade (base not auriculate), not rosulate;

margins pinnatifid.

Racemes

(corymbose, several-flowered), congested or considerably elongated in fruit.

Flowers

sepals (erect or slightly ascending), oblong-ovate;

petals white or purplish, obovate to oblanceolate, (longer than sepals, claw undifferentiated from blade, apex obtuse);

stamens slightly tetradynamous;

filaments not dilated basally;

anthers ovate, (apex obtuse);

nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.

Fruiting pedicels

divaricate-ascending, slender.

Fruits

(siliques or silicles), sessile, usually linear to oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, not torulose, slightly to strongly angustiseptate;

valves each not veined, glabrous or, rarely, sparsely puberulent;

replum rounded;

septum complete;

ovules 30–46 per ovary;

stigma capitate, entire.

Seeds

uniseriate, plump, not winged, oblong;

seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons incumbent.

Polyctenium

Distribution
from USDA
nw United States
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 415. Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae
Subordinate taxa
P. fremontii
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 219. (1912)
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