Brassicaceae tribe Boechereae

Perennials or, rarely, biennials; eglandular. Trichomes often short-stalked, sessile, or subsessile, usually forked or dendritic, rarely malpighiaceous, sometimes simple or absent. Cauline leaves (sometimes absent); petiolate, subsessile, or sessile; blade base auriculate or not, margins usually entire or dentate, rarely pinnatifid. Racemes ebracteate, often elongated in fruit. Flowers actinomorphic; sepals erect, ascending, or spreading, lateral pair usually not saccate basally; petals white, yellowish, pink, lavender, or purple, claw present, often indistinct; filaments unappendaged, not winged; pollen 3-colpate. Fruits usually siliques, rarely silicles, dehiscent, unsegmented, usually latiseptate, rarely terete or slightly angustiseptate; ovules [2–]4–250 per ovary; style usually distinct, rarely obsolete; stigma usually entire, rarely 2-lobed. Seeds biseriate, sub-biseriate, uniseriate, or, rarely, aseriate; cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

Distribution

North America, Asia (Russian Far East).

Discussion

Genera 7, species 119 (7 genera, 117 species in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Anelsonia, Boechera, Cusickiella, Nevada, Phoenicaulis, Polyctenium, Sandbergia