Berteroa DC.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 305

52. Berteroa DC. 1

Annual to perennial herbs; hairs stellate or of 2 kinds, stellate and unbranched. Sepals erecto-patent, not saccate at base; petals white or pale yellow, sometimes becoming reddish, deeply bifid; outer filaments with a tooth at the base, inner broad towards the base or toothed. Fruit a latiseptate silicula; valves flat or somewhat inflated, without a conspicuous median vein; style distinct; stigma capitate. Seeds 2-6 in each loculus, sometimes winged.

All species occur in stony or rocky places, or as ruderals.

1 Petals pale yellow; silicula about as long as wide, orbicular or

obovate-orbicular 3. orbiculata 1 Petals white or very pale cream, sometimes becoming reddish;

silicula 1-5-3 times as long as wide, elliptical or elliptic-

orbicular 2 Style 0-5-1 mm (Crna Gora) 5. gintlii 2 Style 1-4 mm 3 Silicula inflated, the valves convex; seeds margined, but not

conspicuously winged 4. incana 3 Silicula flat; seeds winged 4 Silicula pubescent with stellate hairs; style (1 -5—)2—4 mm

1. obliqua 4 Silicula ±glabrous; style 1-2 mm 2. mutabilis