*SHOW Genera of Brassicaceae of the World. 25 June 2003.

*CHARACTER LIST
#1. Synonymy/

#2. Duration /
       1. Annual or biennial/
       2. Perennial /

#3. Habit/
       1. Herbs/
       2. Shrubs or subshrubs/
       3. Lianas/

#4. Habitat/
       1. Terrestrial/
       2. Aquatic/

#5. Plant thorns and spines/
       1. Present /
       2. Absent/

#6. Hairs (trichomes)/
       1. Absent/
       2. Exclusively simple/
       3. Mixture of simple and branched/
       4. Exclusively malpighiaceous (2-branched, sessile, medifixed)/
       5. Stellate (star-shaped) and sessile/
       6. At least some dendritic (tree-like)/
       7. Stellate and stalked/

#7. Multicellular glands /
       1. Present/
       2. Absent/

#8. Is it a weed?/
       1. No/
       2. Yes/

#9. Stem leaves/
       1. Present/
       2. Absent/

#10. Base of stem (cauline) leaves; no state if all leaves basal /
       1. Petiolate/
       2. Sessile but not auriculate or amplexicaul/
       3. Auriculate, amplexicaul, or sagittate/

#11. Divisions and margins of stem leaves (if stem leaves absent, examine basal
          leaves)/
       1. Entire or repand/
       2. Dentate, serrate, incised, crenate, sinuate/
       3. Pinnately lobed (lyrate, runcinate, pinnatifid)/
       4. Palmately lobed/
       5. 1-3-pinnatisect/
       6. Trifoliolate/
       7. Pinnately compound/
       8. Palmately compound/

#12. Flower arrangement in /
       1. Racemes that are bracteate throughout or at least lower half/
       2. Racemes that are ebracteate or rarely lowermost 1 or 2 flowers
          bracteate/
       3. Solitary flowers borne on pedicels originating from basal rosette/

#13. Petal presence/
       1. Distinctly longer than sepals/
       2. Subequalling sepals/
       3. Reduced and smaller than sepals/
       4. Absent/

#14. Petal color/
       1. White/
       2. Yellow/
       3. Pink (or lavender)/
       4. Purple (or violet)/
       5. Orange/
       6. Green/
       7. Blue/
       8. Brown/

#15. Petal shape/
       1. Obovate/
       2. Oblong to elliptic/
       3. Orbicular/
       4. Spatulate to oblanceolate/
       5. Linear/
       6. Filiform/
       7. Obcordate/

#16. Petal margin and apex/
       1. Entire/
       2. Bifid, 3-lobed, pinnately lobed, or fimbriate/

#17. Sepal orientation/
       1. Ascending/
       2. Erect but not connivent/
       3. Erect and connivent/
       4. Spreading/
       5. Reflexed/

#18. Sepals union/
       1. Free/
       2. United/

#19. Stamen number/
       1. Six/
       2. Four/
       3. Two/
       4. More than six/

#20. Lower part of filaments and petal claws/
       1. Both without anything/
       2. Filaments with a wing, tooth, or appendage/
       3. Petal claw and/or filament with hairs or papillae/

#21. Filaments of median stamens/
       1. Free/
       2. United at least along lower third/

#22. Stamens position/
       1. Included within calyx or partially exserted/
       2. Exserted well above sepals and petals/

#23. Fruit length-width ratio/
       1. Silique (fruit more than 3 times longer than broad)/
       2. Silicle (fruit up to 3 times longer than broad)/

#24. Fruit shape/
       1. Linear/
       2. Lanceolate or oblanceolate/
       3. Oblong/
       4. Elliptic/
       5. Ovate or obovate/
       6. Orbicular/
       7. Triangular/
       8. Didymous (spectacle shaped)/
       9. Globose (spherical)/
       10. Ovoid or obovoid/
       11. Ellipsoid/
       12. Pyriform or obpyriform (pear-shaped)/
       13. Cordate or obcordate/
       14. Fusiform/
       15. Panduriform/
       16. Pyramidal/
       17. Navicular/

#25. Fruit flattening/
       1. Angustiseptate (flattened at a right angle to septum)/
       2. Latiseptate (flattened parallel to septum)/
       3. Terete (not flattened, cylindrical (circular in cross section))/
       4. Quadrangular (4-angled (square or rectangular in cross section))/

#26. Fruit (or segments) wall/
       1. Woody or corky and thick/
       2. Thin papery/
       3. Neither of the above (normal)/

#27. Fruit dehiscence/
       1. Dehiscent (readily releasing seeds)/
       2. Indehiscent (seeds remain inside whole fruit)/
       3. Fruit breaks up into closed, 1- or few-seeded segments (schizocarp,
          loment, or segmented)/

#28. Gynophore in fruit/
       1. At least 1.5 mm long, usually much longer/
       2. Absent or rarely to 1 mm long/

#29. Septum in mature fruit/
       1. Lacking or reduced to a narrow rim/
       2. Complete or rarely with a hole/

#30. Stigma lobing in fruit/
       1. Entire (not lobed)/
       2. Lobes not decurrent/
       3. Lobes decurrent (connivent)/

#31. Type of fruit appendages/
       1. None/
       2. Wings/
       3. Horns/
       4. Glochidiate trichomes/
       5. Surface verrucose/
       6. Beaklike style or distal segment/
       7. Crests/
       8. Long silk/
       9. Spines/

#32. Number of ovules/seeds per ovary/fruit/
       1. one/
       2. Two/
       3. Three to five/
       4. Six to ten/
       5. Eleven to 20/
       6. 21 to 50/
       7. 51 to 100/
       8. More than 100/

#33. Seed arrangement per locule/
       1. Uniseriate (in one row)/
       2. Biseriate (in two rows)/
       3. Aseriate (not in rows: when fruit has one or a few seeds)/

#34. Seed wing/
       1. Present/
       2. Absent/

#35. Cotyledonary position/
       1. Accumbent (radicle /
       2. Incumbent/
       3. Conduplicate/
       4. Diplecolobal/
       5. Spiral/
       6. Straight/
       7. Other types/

#36. Seed mucilage (when seeds soaked in water for a few minutes)/
       1. Present/
       2. Absent/

#37. Arrangement/
       1. Alternate/
       2. Opposite/
       3. Whorled/

#38. Symmetry/
       1. Actinomorphic (all petals equal)/
       2. Zygomorphic (two petals and/or sepals much larger than other two)/

#39. Sex/
       1. All flowers bisexual (with stamens and pistils)/
       2. At least some flowers unisexual/

#40. Number of fruit valves/
       1. Two/
       2. Three to six/

#41. Fruit orientation/
       1. Erect to spreading/
       2. Reflexed (pendulous)/