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Key to Brassicaceae, Key D: plants in fruit, trichomes of plant present with some or most or all branched

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1 Fruits silicles (<3× as long as wide).
..2 Leaves basal only
..2 Plant with some cauline leaves.
....3 Cauline leaves sessile; blade bases auriculate, sagittate, or amplexicaulous.
......4 Fruits narrowly pyriform to pyriform or broadly obovoid
......4 Fruits obdeltoid
....3 Cauline leaves petiolate or sessile and not auriculate.
........5 Leaves 2-3× pinnately dissected
........5 Leaves not pinnately dissected.
..........6 Fruits with 1-2 seeds
............ 7 Plants canescent (grayish-green pubescent) throughout; plants herbaceous
............ 7 Plants green, not canescent throughout (sometimes sparsely pubescent, especially distally, but not uniformly canescent); larger plants often suffruticose
..........6 Fruits with 4 or more seeds.
............ ..8 Seeds winged or margined
............ ..8 Seeds without differentiated margin
............ ....9 Plants with basal leaves strongly rosulate
............ ....9 Plants without strong basal leaf rosette, instead leaves cauline
1 Fruits siliques (> 3× as long as wide).
............ ......10 Leaves basal only
............ ......10 Plant with some cauline leaves.
............ ........11 Cauline leaves sessile; blade bases auriculate, sagittate, or amplexicaule.
............ ..........12 Seeds uniseriate.
............ ............ 13 Siliques straight, slightly ascending to strictly erect or appressed; seeds 0.6-1.7 mm long; basal leaves < 8 cm long
............ ............ 13 Siliques curved or straight, ascending to descending, seeds either <1mm long or < 2.5 mm long, basal leaves 2.5-20 cm long
............ ........11 Cauline leaves petiolate or sessile and not auriculate.
............ ............ ..14 Trichomes sessile, medifixed
............ ............ ..14 Trichomes not sessile and medifixed.
............ ............ ....15 Leaves 2-3× pinnately dissected
............ ............ ....15 Leaves not 2-3× pinnately dissected..
............ ............ ......16 Stigmas 2-lobed with lobes connivent and decurrent to erect
............ ............ ......16 Stigmas entire and capitate, rarely slightly 2-lobed.
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