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g. Brassicaceae Burnett tribe Buniadeae de Candolle, Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 245. 1821.
Annuals, biennials, or perennials; glandular (glands multicellular on multiseriate stalks). Trichomes stalked, forked, or simple. Cauline leaves sessile or subsessile [petiolate]; blade base not auriculate, margins dentate or entire. Racemes ebracteate, often elongated in fruit. Flowers actinomorphic; sepals spreading or ascending [erect], lateral pair not saccate basally; petals yellow, claw usually present [absent], often distinct; filaments unappendaged [winged]; pollen 3-colpate. Fruits silicles [siliques], indehiscent [dehiscent], unsegmented, terete or 4-angled [latiseptate]; ovules 2-4[-numerous] per ovary; style obsolete or distinct; stigma entire [2-lobed]. Seeds aseriate [biseriate]; cotyledons spirolobal.
Genus 1, species 2 (2 in the flora): introduced; Europe, Asia, Africa.
Lower Taxon
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