Brassicaceae tribe Lunarieae

Dumortier

Fl. Belg., 119. 1827.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 596.

Biennials or, rarely, annuals [perennials]; eglandular. Trichomes simple. Cauline leaves petiolate or sessile; blade base not auriculate, margins dentate. Racemes usually ebracteate, elongated in fruit. Flowers actinomorphic; sepals erect, lateral pair strongly saccate basally; petals usually purple, rarely lavender or white [violet], claw present, distinct; filaments unappendaged, not winged; pollen 3-colpate. Fruits silicles, dehiscent, unsegmented, latiseptate; ovules 4–8 per ovary; style distinct; stigma 2-lobed [entire]. Seeds biseriate, (funicle adnate to septum); cotyledons accumbent.

Distribution

Introduced; Europe

Discussion

Genus 1, species 3 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

"elongated" is not a number."thick" is not a number.

Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz +
Dumortier +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
not auriculate +
dissected +, repand +, sinuate +, crenate +  and dentate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
not +  and differentiated +
emarginate +  and entire +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
2-valved +  and capsular +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
compound +, pinnately +, trifoliolate +  and simple +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
basal +  and cauline +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
pinnatifid +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
white +, lavender +  and purple +
rudimentary +
cruciform +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
flattened +  and rounded +
margined +, not +  and winged +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
ovate +, globose +, oblong +, ovoid +  and flattened +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
perforated +  and complete +
reduced +
latiseptate +, schizocarpic +, samaroid +  and lomentaceous +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
angustiseptate +, flat +, angled +, terete +, torulose +, not +, segmented +  and nutletlike +
tetradynamous +
unbranched +  and branched +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
descending +, ascending +  and erect +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
Cruciferae +
Brassicaceae tribe Lunarieae +
Brassicaceae +
scale-like +  and forked +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
anastomosing +
annual +  and biennial +
rhizomatous +, taprooted +, scapose +  and not +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
subshrub +  and herb +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +