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CUSICKIELLA
Perennial, low- cespitose, cushion-like; caudex woody, many-branched; hairs simple or mixed with stalked forked or ± many-branched hairs.
Stem: scapose, erect, leaves 0–few.
Leaf: basal rosetted at tip of caudex branches, sessile, entire, thickened at base; cauline few or 0, bases not lobed.
Inflorescence: ± elongated; bracts 0–few.
Flower: sepals erect or ascending, base not sac-like; petals white to pale yellow.
Fruit: silicle, sessile, ovoid to ellipsoid, dehiscent, unsegmented; valves rounded or keeled, glabrous or hairy; stigma entire.
Seed: 1–4, plump, ± ovoid to oblong; wing 0.
2 species: w US. (W.C. Cusick, OR plant collector, 1842–1922) [Rollins 1988 J Jap Bot 63:65–69]

Key to Cusickiella

1. Lf (3)5–12(14) mm; petals white; bracts 0; fruit valves rounded ..... C. douglasii

1' Lf 1.5–4.5 mm; petals pale yellow; bracts subtending lower pedicels; fruit valves keeled ..... C. quadricostata

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