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Annual herb (in ours). Lower leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, becoming linear above. Flowers ± yellow in terminal racemes. Petals unguiculate. Stamens 6. Fruit a siliqua, 4-angled in cross-section with keeled valves and a conical beak. Seeds in 1 row, ovoid or ellipsoid. Worldwide: 20 species in Macaronesia, Mediterranean region and C and S Europe; naturalised as weeds elsewhere Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
arabicum Fisch. & C.A. Mey. var. arabicum | W |
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