Annuals, biennials, or perennials; glandular (glands multicellular on multiseriate stalks). Trichomes stalked, forked, or simple. Cauline leaves sessile or subsessile [petiolate]; blade base not auriculate, margins dentate or entire. Racemes ebracteate, often elongated in fruit. Flowers actinomorphic; sepals spreading or ascending [erect], lateral pair not saccate basally; petals yellow, claw usually present [absent], often distinct; filaments unappendaged [winged]; pollen 3-colpate. Fruits silicles [siliques], indehiscent [dehiscent], unsegmented, terete or 4-angled [latiseptate]; ovules 2–4[–numerous] per ovary; style obsolete or distinct; stigma entire [2-lobed]. Seeds aseriate [biseriate]; cotyledons spirolobal.
Distribution
Europe, Asia, Africa.
Discussion
Genus 1, species 2 (2 in the flora).
Selected References
None.