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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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