The new tribe Fourraeeae (Brassicaceae) and two Moroccan Arabis species transferred to the new genus Hurkaea
Author
Koch, Marcus A.
Department of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics, Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Author
Karl, Robert
Department of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics, Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Author
Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, U. S. A. 63110
Author
German, Dmitry A.
South-Siberian Botanical Garden, Altai State University, Lenin Ave. 61, Barnaul, Russia
text
Phytotaxa
2022
2022-04-08
543
1
41
50
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.543.1.4
journal article
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10.11646/phytotaxa.543.1.4
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Fouraeeae
Al-Shehbaz, M. Koch, R. Karl, & D.A. German
,
trib. nov.
Type
genus:
Fourraea
Greuter & Burdet
Herbs normally perennial, glaucous.Trichomes absent or simple, confined to margins of basal leaves.Leaves exclusively or nearly so entire, middle and upper cauline ones sessile, amplexicaul to strongly auriculate. Racemes ebracteate, elongated in fruit. Petals white, lavender, intense purple-violet. Ovules numerous. Fruits dehiscent, unsegmented, linear siliques, glabrous, latiseptate or nearly so, with distinct or obscure midvein. Seeds uniseriate; cotyledons accumbent.
Species of the
Fourraeeae
can generally (but not exclusively) be distinguished from those of the
Arabideae
by being either glabrous or at most with simple trichomes confined to leaf margins and that their seeds are always uniseriate. By contrast, species of the
Arabideae
have most often one or more
type
of branched trichomes that are sometimes mixed with simple ones, and seeds are often biseriate or very rarely aseriate, but uniseriate seeds are known and common in
Arabideae
, too.
Three species in two genera distributed in southern and central Europe and
Morocco
.
Key to genera.
1a. Fruits with a prominent midvein; trichomes simple, confined to margin of basal leaves; petals white; Europe.................
Fourraea
1b. Fruits with obscure midvein; trichomes absent; petals white, pink, or dark purple-violet;
Morocco
...................................
Hurkaea