Alyssum
Meikle, R.D. 1977: Flora of Cyprus 1 but accepted names differing
1 | Subshrubs or perennial with woody rootstocks |
1' | Annual herbs with suborbicular fruits |
2 | Silicle ovate or obovate-elliptical, narrowed at both ends |
2' | Silicle obovate-suborbicular, rounded, truncate or retuse at apex |
3 | Silicle glabrous, 7-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide; leaves rather broadly obovate-spathulate |
3' | Silicle sparsely stellate-pillose, about 4 mm long and 2.5 mm wide; leaves narrowly obovate-spathulate |
4 | Silicle glabrous or almost so, tuberculate-papillose; a robust, erect subshrub |
4' | Silicle stellate-pilose; a weak, straggling perennial |
5 | Silicle stellate-pilose |
5' | Silicle glabrous |
6 | Infructescence umbellate, or at most very shortly racemose |
6' | Infructescence elongate, racemose |
7 | Style stellate-pilose; fruits with a uniform indumentum of stellate hairs |
7' | Style glabrous; fruits with a dimorphic indumentum of long, simple or forked hairs, and shorter stellate hairs |
8 | Leaves rather loosely and unevenly stellate-pilose: silicle about 3.5 mm diam.; seed fulvous-brown with a narrow inconspicuous wing |
8' | Leaves densely and closely stellate-pilose; silicle about 4 mm diam.; seed fuscous-brown with a conspicuous pale wing |