Sisymbrella Spach

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 282

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Sisymbrella Spach
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37. Sisymbrella Spach 1

Annual to short-lived perennial herbs; glabrous or with unbranched hairs. Leaves lyrate to pinnatisect. Inner sepals saccate at base; petals yellow or white. Fruit a siliqua, attenuate at apex; valves without distinct median vein; style distinct; stigma capitate. Seeds in 1 or 2 rows in each loculus.

Differs from Nasturtium and Rorippa in the attenuate siliqua and in the seeds becoming mucilaginous when moistened.

Literature: V. H. Heywood, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Bot.) 1: 106-10 (1954). R. Virot, Cahiers Nat. Paris nov.ser. 15: 89-96 (1959).

Petals white; stems with unbranched hairs, smooth 1. dentata Petals yellow; stems ±glabrous or scabrid 2. aspera

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