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Brassicales |
 | | The distinctive vertical files of root hairs are known from Limnanthaceae and some terminal members of Brassicales, they have not been observed in Tropaeolaceae, but other taxa have not been studied (Dolan and Costa 2001). |
 | | Limnanthaceae are rather soft-stemmed herbs with spiral, exstipulate, deeply-lobed or compound leaves and rather open flowers with a valvate calyx, contorted corolla, and gynobasic style or styles. |
 | | The ovules differ from those of other Brassicales, which are crassinucellate, bitegmic, and with a monosporic, 8-nucleate embryo sac, but chemistry and molecular data place them here. |
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