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ATHYSANUS
Annual; hairs simple, or short-stalked with 2–4- rays.
Stem: simple or branched at base, leafy.
Leaf: basal not rosetted, short petioled, entire or dentate; cauline short-petioled or sessile, base not lobed, entire or dentate.
Inflorescence: 1-sided; bracts 0.
Flower: sepals erect, early- deciduous, base not sac-like; petals < to > sepals or rudimentary, white.
Fruit: silicle, reflexed, indehiscent or late- dehiscent, unsegmented, round or obovate to elliptic, flat parallel to septum, glabrous to hairy; pedicel recurved.
Seed: 1 or 6–12, in 1 row, flat, not winged.
2 species: w North America, nw Mex. (Greek: without fruit fringe)
Unabridged note: Jepson 1901 Fl W Calif:224 united Athysanus and Heterodraba under the former, thus establishing nomenclatural priority. The 2 genera are indistinguishable in every character except those in the key below. Molecular data support the placement of the combined genus near Draba and Arabis.

Key to Athysanus

1. Fr indehiscent, not twisted, hairs hooked if present; septum 0; seed 1 ..... A. pusillus

1' Fr late-dehiscent, generally twisted, hairs not hooked if present; septum present; seeds 6–12 ..... A. unilateralis

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