SANBI Flora Keys - Classification of Brassicaceae
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Interactive keys to the identification of seed plants of southern Africa using keys based on plant morphology.
  • After:
    • SCHULZ, O.E. 1936. Cruciferae . Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien II,17b
    • JONSELL, B. 1982. Cruciferae . Flora of tropical East Africa , Cruciferae
    • TAKHTAJAN, A. 1997. Diversity and classification of flowering plants . Columbia University Press, New York
  • Tribe Chamireae (Fruit a shortly stipitate siliqua; cotyledons persistent, leaf-like, folded longitudinally, with margins deeply folded in again; filaments not appendiculate; hairs absent):
    • Chamira
  • Tribe Heliophileae (Fruit a siliqua; cotyledons twice transversely folded; filaments with appendages or papillate at base; hairs absent or simple):
    • Cycloptychis
    • Heliophila
    • Thlaspeocarpa
  • Tribe Brassiceae (Fruit usually a siliqua with a distinct, few-seeded to seedless stylar beak, or transversely septate into an upper and lower segment; cotyledons longitudinally folded, spirally or incumbent or accumbent; filaments rarely with appendages; hairs simple or absent):
    • * Brassica
    • * Crambe
    • * Diplotaxis
    • * Eruca
    • Erucastrum
    • * Hirschfeldia
    • * Raphanus
    • * Rapistrum
    • * Sinapis
  • Tribe Sisymbrieae (Fruit a siliqua, rarely a silicula; cotyledons incumbent; filaments linear, not appendiculate; hairs branched, forked or simple):
    • * Arabidopsis
    • * Descurainia
    • Sisymbrium
  • Tribe Arabideae (Fruit a siliqua, very rarely a silicula; cotyledons accumbent, rarely incumbent; filaments linear, not appendiculate, sometimes flattened or thickened at base; hairs branched or simple):
    • Aplanodes
    • * Barbarea
    • Cardamine
    • Rorippa
    • * Turritis
  • Tribe Lepidieae (Fruit a narrowly septate silicula, usually dehiscent; cotyledons incumbent or accumbent; filaments often appendiculate or widened; hairs branched or simple):
    • Brachycarpaea
    • * Camelina
    • * Capsella
    • * Cardaria
    • * Coronopus
    • * Hymenolobus
    • Lepidium
    • * Thlaspi
  • Tribe Hesperideae (Fruit a broadly septate, flat or inflated silicula, rarely elongated into a siliqua; cotyledons accumbent; filaments linear or appendiculate; hairs mostly branched: stellate, forked, 2-fid or rarely simple):
    • * Alyssum
    • * Lobularia
    • * Matthiola
  • Tribe Lunarieae (Fruit a compressed silicula; cotyledons twice transversely folded; filaments not appendiculate; hairs absent):
    • Schlechteria
    • Silicularia

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