Brassicaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Brassicaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbs, rarely somewhat woody, with watery acrid sap, alternate leaves, and racemose or coiwmbose flowers. Sepals 4. deciduous, or rarely persistent, the 2 outer narrow, the inner similar, or concave, or saccate at the base. Petals 4, hypogynous, cruciate, nearly equal, generally clawed. Stamens 6, rarely fewer, hypogynous, tetradynamous. Pistil 1, compound, consisting of 2 united carpels, the parietal placentae united by a dissepiment; style generally persistent, sometimes none; stigma discoid or usually more or less 2-lobed. Fruit a silique or silicle, generally 2-celled, rarely 1-celled, in a few geenra indehiscent. Seeds attached to both sides of the septum; endosperm none; cotyledons incumbent, accumbent or conduplicate. About 200 genera and 1800 species, of wide geographic distribution.