Capsella
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Description
Annual to short-lived perennials, small to medium-sized with taproot.
Hairs simple, or forked, or branched.
Sepals somewhat spreading, not saccate.
Petals white, sometimes reddish or yellowish, ± clawed, rarely absent.
Stamens 6;
Ovary dorsiventrally flattened, obovate in outline, with 10-40 ovules in each locule.
Fruit a silicula, dehiscent, flat, with narrow septum, obtriangular to obcordate, valves keeled.
Seeds numerous, not mucilaginous.