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|accepted_name=Carrichtera
|accepted_authority=de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|place=7: 244, 250. 1821
|year=1821
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae;Carrichtera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carrichtera]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Bartholomaeus Carrichter, sixteenth-century herbalist, alchemist, and physician to Emperor Maximilian II
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 232, 238, 419
|treatment_page=page 429
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; not scapose; hirsute [glabrous], (trichomes often retrorse). <b>Stems</b> usually erect or ascending, rarely decumbent, usually branched, rarely simple. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or subsessile; basal not rosulate, petiolate, blade 1- or 2-pinnatisect, margins entire; cauline subsessile or shortly petiolate, blade 1- or 2-pinnatisect, (base not auriculate), margins entire. <b>Racemes</b> (lax), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels strongly recurved, often secund, not thickened. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, oblong-linear, lateral pair slightly saccate basally; petals cream or pale yellow (with dark purple or brown veins, longer than sepals), spatulate to obovate, claw strongly differentiated from blade; stamens tetradynamous, (erect); filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate to oblong, (apiculate); nectar glands: lateral intrastaminal, globose to semi-annular, median glands present (distinct). <b>Fruits</b> silicles, dehiscent, sessile, segments 2, ovoid to ellipsoid, terete; (proximal segment not torulose, 4–6-seeded; terminal segment indehiscent, flattened, cochleariform to short-lingulate, seedless); valves each with prominent midvein and distinct marginal veins, glabrous except setose or hirsute on veins; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 4–6 per ovary; (style obscure); stigma capitate, 2-lobed. <b>Seeds</b> biseriate, plump, not winged, subglobose; seed coat (smooth), mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;s Europe;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
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name=Carrichtera
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Calif.;s Europe;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1821
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae
|genus=Carrichtera
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