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Fruits with 2-4 apical (from the valves and below the
stigma) appendages (horns) |
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(2) |
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Fruits without appendages (rarely stigma with diverging lobes) |
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(4) |
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2 (1) |
Siliquae with 2 apical horns |
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(3) |
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Siliquae with 4 apical horns |
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Tetracme |
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3 (2) |
Hairs bipartite-appressed; flowers white, 2-3 mm across; siliquae 4-8 mm long |
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Notoceras |
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Hairs branched or stellate, dense; flowers large, pick orrose, 10 mm across; siliquae 10-15 mm long |
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Diceratella |
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4 (1) |
Siliquae all alike, ± compressed, dehiscent |
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(5) |
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Siliquae dimorphic or alike (flat ones dehiscent,
Cylindrical ones usually indehiscent but breaking
into several, usually 2-seeded parts) |
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(7) |
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5 (4) |
Flowering branches scapose, usually aphyllous |
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Parrya |
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Flowering branches ± leafy |
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(6) |
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6 (5) |
Usually robust erect herbs, woody below or pere-
nnial (rarely annual); leaves often lanceolate, usually toothed, densely canescent; stigma large bilobed; fruits many seeded; seeds not or obscurely
winged |
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Matthiola |
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Subspreading annuals; leaves usually ovate-oblong,
distant, stellately hairy, slightly toothed or entire; stigma short, retuse; fruits usually few seeded; seeds narrowly winged |
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Cithareloma |
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7 (4) |
Siliquae alike subcylindrical, torulose, usually brea- king into several, 2-seeded pats; hairs simple, branched or glandular; leaves usually pinnatifid, toothed (rarely entire), basal usually rosulate |
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Chorispora |
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Siliquae usually dimorphic, flat compressed and
subcylindrical (very rarely all flat-compressed); hairs bi-or tri-partite, ± appressed (rarely plants almost glabrous) |
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Diptychocarpus |
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