Annual herbs to subshrubs, branched, with often dense greyish or whitish tomentum of branched and sometimes also glandular hairs. Leaves undivided to pinnatifid. Racemes ebracteate, with rather few showy flowers, elongate in fruit. Sepals erect, the inner saccate. Petals purplish, violet or sordid white, distinctly clawed. Ovary linear. Fruit a siliqua, linear, terete or dorso-ventrally compressed, without transverse septa. Seeds uniseriate, suborbicular, compressed, often winged.
Worldwide: 55 species: Macaronesia, Europe and the Mediterranean area Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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