Erysimum
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Annual herbs, with medifixed or stellate appressed hairs. Leaves simple to pinnately lobed. Inflorescence a raceme, often more or less corymbose. Sepals erect, inner pair usually saccate; petals long-clawed, yellow (in Australia); stamens 6. Fruit pedicellate (sometimes shortly so), linear, quadrangular, elongate (more than 3 times as long as broad), dehiscent; style capitate, slightly bilobed; valves with conspicuous midvein; seeds in 1 row per locule.
100 species, mostly in Europe and the Mediterranean region; 1 species naturalised in Australia and Victoria.
Source:
Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Brassicaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 399–459. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Updated by: Val
Stajsic,
1 Oct. 2020
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