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Herbs annual or perennial. Trichomes absent or simple. Stems erect or ascending, rarely procumbent. Basal leaves petiolate, rosulate or not, dentate, lyrate, pinnatifid, or pinnatisect, rarely bipinnatipartite. Cauline leaves petiolate or sessile and sometimes auriculate. Racemes ebracteate or rarely lowermost flowers bracteate, elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels ascending, divaricate, or recurved. Sepals oblong or linear, erect or spreading, base of lateral pair often not saccate. Petals yellow, white, pink, or purple, longer than sepals; blade obovate or suborbicular, apex obtuse or emarginate; claw absent or as long as or shorter than sepals. Stamens 6, tetradynamous; filaments not dilated at base; anthers oblong, obtuse at apex. Nectar glands 4; median glands large; lateral glands smaller. Ovules 16-260 per ovary. Fruit dehiscent siliques, linear, latiseptate or terete, glabrous, sessile or long stipitate, unsegmented or segmented; valvular segment well developed, dehiscent, numerous seeded, much longer than terminal segment, torulose, with a distinct midvein; terminal segment indehiscent, seedless or 1-or 2-seeded; replum rounded; septum complete; style obsolete to 4 mm; stigma capitate, entire or 2-lobed. Seeds biseriate, wingless, oblong, ovoid, or ellipsoid, slightly flattened; seed coat smooth or minutely reticulate, slightly mucilaginous or not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate.
Annual to perennial taprooted herbs. Hairs simple, stiff, or 0. Stems erect, leafy. Lvs shallowly to deeply pinnatifid, lobed, or toothed. Racemes ebracteate. Sepals somewhat spreading, inner pair not or slightly saccate. Petals yellow, rarely white or lilac. Stamens 6, without appendages, the outer pair sometimes sterile. Lateral nectaries 2, reniform at bases of lateral stamens; median nectaries 2, ligulate outside each pair of median stamens. Style short; stigma very shortly 2-lobed. Silique linear to narrow-oblong, dehiscent; valves distinctly 1-veined; beak narrowly conic, with or without seeds. Seeds ovoid, not winged, in 2 rows per locule.
Sep erect or ascending, not saccate; pet yellow or white, gradually narrowed to the claw; short stamens subtended by a hemispheric or reniform gland; each pair of long stamens subtended by a short, prismatic gland; ovary linear, with many ovules; style scarcely differentiated; stigma capitate; fr linear, slender, somewhat compressed, shortly beaked, the valves with a prominent midnerve; seeds small, smooth, in 2 rows in each locule; herbs with usually toothed or pinnately lobed lvs and middle-sized fls; pubescence of simple hairs or none. 25, Europe, Mediterranean.
Annual or perennial herbs. Sepals equal at base, somewhat spreading. Petals clawed. Stamens 6. Nectariferous glands 4, reniform at base of short stamens, ligulate outside each pair of long stamens. Stigma capitate. Siliqua dehiscent, flattened parallel to septum, beaked; beak short, 2-edged; valves with one prominent midvein. Seeds ovoid, compressed, in 2 rows per locule. Cotyledons conduplicate; radicle incumbent.
