Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Strigosella africana Eutrema edwardsii Halimolobos jaegeri	Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Annuals; not scapose; pubescent [glabrous], trichomes simple and stalked, forked or dendritic. Stems erect or ascending, unbranched or branched. Leaves basal and cauline; petiolate or subsessile; basal not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire, dentate, or pinnatifid; cauline petiolate or subsessile, blade margins usually entire or dentate, rarely sinuate [lobed]. Racemes (few to several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels ascending or divaricate, stout [slender] (about equal to fruits). Flowers: sepals narrowly oblong [ovate], pubescent; petals pink or purple [rarely white], oblanceolate [spatulate, oblong], (longer than sepals), claw undifferentiated from blade, (apex obtuse or rounded); stamens tetradynamous, (erect); filaments not dilated basally [sometimes median 4 connate in 2 pairs]; anthers oblong [ovate], (apiculate or not); nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen, median glands absent. Fruits siliques, subsessile, linear, smooth [torulose], 4-angled [terete]; valves each with obscure [prominent] midvein, pubescent or glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 40–80 per ovary; style obsolete; stigma conical, 2-lobed (lobes connivent or connate, opposite replum). Seeds uniseriate, plump or slightly flattened, not winged, oblong [ovate]; seed-coat (reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent. x = 7.

Distribution

Introduced; Europe, c, w Asia, n Africa

Discussion

Species 20 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

Botschantzev, V. P. 1972b. The genus Strigosella Boiss. and its relation to the genus Malcolmia R. Br. (Cruciferae). Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 57: 1033–1046.

Lower Taxa

Strigosella africana

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