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Brassica

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Brassicales Family: Brassicaceae Genus: Brassica

Description

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Growth Form: Erect, branched annual or perennial herbs, with watery and usually pungent sap.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate or rarely opposite. Blades lyrate–pinnatifid, those of upper stems dentate or subentire. Petiolate or sessile. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in usually bractless, in elongate, terminal racemes. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic or rarely slightly irregular; showy. Calyx of 4 sepals, ascending or spreading, deciduous, erect, usually oblong, inner ones ± gibbous at base. Corolla of 4 petals, rarely absent, yellow to cream, long–clawed. Stamens (2–4)6(–16), tetradynamous, the inner 4 usually in pairs, sometimes connate at base in pairs; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2(4?)-carpellate, usually 2-celled by means of a false, but usually complete septum, rarely 1-celled, sessile or rarely stipitate; ovules 1 to numerous, borne on parietal placentas on replum margin at periphery of ovary wall, campylotropous or occasionally anatropous; style 1 or occasionally absent; stigma truncate or 2-lobed.

Fruit: Capsules divided into 2 cells by the usually thin and membranous septum; elongate (at least 3 times as long as wide) and referred to as a silique. fruit an elongate; linear silique; often torulose; terete (cylindrical) or 4-angled; with a stout; indehiscent; flat or conical; often 1–seeded beak. Seeds 1 to numerous; often becoming mucilaginous when wet; endosperm essentially absent. Seeds in 1 row per cell; reddish brown to dark brown or gray; globose.

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 666 (1753)

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