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nnual, erect, branched, 15-60 (-90) cm tall, ± hispid below and glaucous above. Lower leaves pinnately lobed, 3-jugate, stalked, irregularly and coarsely toothed, terminal lobe large; upper leaves smaller, lobed or simply toothed to subentire, narrowed into a stalk-like base. Racemes branched, much increasing in length in fruit. Sepals 3-4 (-4.5) mm long, 1.2 mm broad, subequal. Petals about twice as long as the sepals, light yellow with darker veins, shortly clawed. Stamens c. 4:5 mm long; pedicel short, 2-3 (-5) mm long in fruit, somewhat thickened and erect-appressed to stem; Siliculae 6-10 mm long, including ± equal upper and lower parts, hispid to glabrous; upper part globular or spherical, 1-seeded, about 3 mm. in diam. with 1-4 mm long beak or style; lower part 2-3 (-3.5) mm long, 1.5 mm broad, usually 1-3 seeded.

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