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CHEIRANTHUS L.
Gleason, H.A. & Cronquist, A. (1963) Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada D. van Nostrand Co, Inc. Princetown New Jersey.
Annual or perennial herbs, pubescent throughout. Leaves simple, narrow; margins entire to pinnatifid, pubescent with 2-4 pronged hairs. Inflorescence of racemes. Sepals 4 erect or connivent; petals yellow to pink or red, obovate or spathulate, narrowed into a long claw. Fruit elongate, 4-angled, hairy; seeds in 1 row. Worldwide: 150 species native to the Mediterranean, south-west Asia, Micronesia and North America. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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