Drabopsis verna Illustration Credit: Shaukat & Azmat

A monotypic genus, differing from Arabis by its leafless scapes, small flowers with petals hardly exceeding the sepals, middle nectar glands absent or rudimen¬tary, minute subsessile or sessile stigma, and siliquae short, ± curved above. Arabis

Looks more like some of the genera of the tribe Sisymbrieae, such as Arabi¬dopsis, in smaller flowers and fruit but the radicle accumbent. However, Busch (in Kom, l.c.) included it under Arabidopsis. Amalgamation of these 2 genera and the transference of Arabidopsis to the tribe Arabideae will probably be a right solution. However, this problem needs further critical studies (see note under Arabidopsis also).

Lower Taxon

• Drabopsis verna C. Koch

Related Synonym(s):

• Arabidipsis nuda (Bel. ex Boiss.) Bornm. = Drabopsis verna C. Koch
• Arabis nuda Belang. ex Boiss. = Drabopsis verna C. Koch
• Arabis scapigera Boiss. = Drabopsis verna C. Koch
• Arabis verna (Koch) N. Busch = Drabopsis verna C. Koch
• Drabopsis nuda (Bel. ex Boiss.) Stapf = Drabopsis verna C. Koch
• Sisymbrium nudum (Bel. ex Boiss.) Boiss = Drabopsis verna C. Koch