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Synthlipsis
Family:
Brassicaceae
Patrick Alexander
FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals, biennials, or perennials;
(short-lived, sometimes cespitose); not scapose; pubescent throughout, trichomes dendritic, base of plant sometimes mixed with fewer, simple or forked, stalked ones.
Stems
ascending to decumbent, unbranched or branched distally.
Leaves
basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins usually sinuately lobed to dentate, rarely repand; cauline petiolate or sessile, blade similar to basal.
Racemes
(corymbose, several-flowered), slightly or considerably elongated in fruit.
Fruiting pedicels
divaricate or divaricate-ascending, slender.
Flowers:
sepals spreading, narrowly oblong, (equal), lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white to violet [purple], broadly obovate, (much longer than sepals), claw differentiated from blade, (much shorter, apex rounded); stamens tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally, (somewhat spreading); anthers linear [narrowly oblong]; nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.
Fruits
silicles, sessile, broadly oblong [broadly elliptic], smooth, angustiseptate; valves carinate; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 10-50 per ovary; style distinct; stigma broadly capitate, entire.
Seeds
± biseriate, flattened, not winged, narrowly margined, broadly ovate; seed coat (nearly smooth), copiously mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent.
x
= 10.
Synthlipsis greggii
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Available