Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae

B. L. Robinson in A. Gray et al.

in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(1,1): 100. 1895.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 604.

Annuals, biennials, perennials, or subshrubs; eglandular. Trichomes usually short-stalked, subsessile, or sessile, sometimes long-stalked, stellate, scalelike, subdendritic, or forked, sometimes mixed with simple ones. Cauline leaves petiolate, sessile, or subsessile; blade base usually not auriculate (except Paysonia), margins entire, dentate, or sinuate. Racemes ebracteate, often elongated in fruit. Flowers actinomorphic; sepals erect, spreading, ascending, or reflexed, lateral pair seldom saccate basally; petals white, yellow, lavender, purple, violet, orange, or brown [pink], claw present, often distinct; filaments unappendaged, not winged; pollen (3 or) 4–11-colpate. Fruits silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, terete, latiseptate, or angustiseptate; ovules 2–100 per ovary; style usually distinct; stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed. Seeds biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate; cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

Distribution

North America, Mexico, South America, Asia (ne Russia)

Discussion

Genera 7, species ca. 130 (7 genera, 105 species in the flora).

Selected References

None.

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

Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz +
B. L. Robinson in A. Gray et al. +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
dissected +, repand +, sinuate +, crenate +  and dentate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
not +  and differentiated +
emarginate +  and entire +
incumbent +  and accumbent +
North America +, Mexico +, South America +  and Asia (ne Russia) +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
2-valved +  and capsular +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +  and terete +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +  and terete +
compound +, pinnately +, trifoliolate +  and simple +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
basal +  and cauline +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
sinuate;dentate;sinuate;dentate +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
brown +, orange +, violet +, purple +, lavender +, yellow +  and white +
rudimentary +
cruciform +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. +
flattened +  and rounded +
margined +, not +  and winged +
aseriate +, uniseriate +  and biseriate +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
ovate +, globose +, oblong +, ovoid +  and flattened +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
reflexed +, ascending +, spreading +  and erect +
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 +
2-lobed +  and entire +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
Cruciferae +
Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae +
Brassicaceae +
subdendritic +, long-stalked +, sessile +, subsessile +  and short-stalked +
forked +  and scale-like +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
anastomosing +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +