Brassicaceae tribe Cardamineae

Dumortier

Fl. Belg., 124. 1827.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 458. Mentioned on page 459, 505, 693.

Annuals, biennials, or perennials; eglandular. Trichomes absent or simple. Cauline leaves (rarely absent), usually petiolate, sometimes sessile; blade (simple or compound), base auriculate or not, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed. Racemes usually ebracteate (Selenia bracteate throughout), often elongated in fruit. Flowers actinomorphic; sepals erect to spreading or ascending, lateral pair seldom saccate basally; petals white, yellow, pink, lilac, or purple, claw usually present, rarely absent, often distinct; filaments unappendaged, not winged; pollen 3-colpate. Fruits silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate, rarely angustiseptate; ovules 4–300 [–numerous] per ovary; style distinct or obsolete (absent in Subularia); stigma usually entire. Seeds biseriate or uniseriate; cotyledons usually accumbent, sometimes incumbent.

Distribution

Nearly worldwide

Discussion

Genera 12, species ca. 335 (10 genera, 85 species in the flora).

The assignment of Subularia to Cardamineae is provisional and based solely on morphology.

Selected References

None.

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

Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz +
Dumortier +
not +  and auriculate +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
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 +
Nearly worldwide +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +, 4-angled +  and terete +
compound +, pinnately +, trifoliolate +  and simple +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
basal +  and cauline +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
dentate to pinnately lobed +  and entire +
pinnatifid +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
purple +, lilac +, pink +, yellow +  and white +
rudimentary +
cruciform +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
flattened +  and rounded +
margined +, not +  and winged +
uniseriate +  and biseriate +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
ovate +, globose +, oblong +, ovoid +  and flattened +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
erect +  and spreading or ascending +
perforated +  and complete +
reduced +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +, 4-angled +  and terete +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +, 4-angled +  and terete +
tetradynamous +
unbranched +  and branched +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
descending +, ascending +  and erect +
2-lobed +, entire +, conical +  and capitate +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
Cruciferae +
Brassicaceae tribe Cardamineae +
Brassicaceae +
scale-like +  and forked +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
anastomosing +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
rhizomatous +, taprooted +, scapose +  and not +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
subshrub +  and herb +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +