Cardaria Desv.

Herbs, perennial glabrous to canescent with short simple hairs; stems erect, leafy, branched. Flowers in corymbose racemes, small, white. Fruiting racemes elongated or shortened and crowded forming a compact corymb. Sepals diverging, outer oblong, inner ovate, not saccate. Petals white, with notched limb. Ovary elliptic to suborbicular, bilocular, 2 - 4-ovuled; style 1 - 2 mm long; stigma capitate. Fruit an indehiscent, somewhat inflated to subglobose silicula, compressed and rarely emarginate at apex, 2 - 4-seeded, glabrous or pubescent; cotyledons incumbent.

Chiefly distributed in Central and Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa; 5 species, 1 in India.

List of Lower Taxa