Brassica Linnaeus (Q3621)

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Brassica is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Brassiceae
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Brassica Linnaeus
Brassica is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Brassiceae

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    taxon/id/Brassica Linnaeus
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    Brassica Linnaeus
    Brassica
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Cabbage (English)
    cole (English)
    mustard (English)
    turnip (English)
    sw Europe
    sw Asia
    nw Africa
    also in Mexico
    West Indies
    Central America
    South America
    Atlantic Islands
    Pacific Islands (New Zealand)
    Australia
    Stems erect, unbranched or branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal (persistent in B. tournefortii), rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid;
    cauline petiolate or sessile, blade (base sometimes auriculate or amplexicaul), margins entire, dentate, lobed, or sinuate-serrate.
    Fruiting pedicels erect, spreading, ascending or divaricately-ascending, often slender.
    Flowers: sepals usually erect or ascending, rarely spreading, oblong [ovate], lateral pair usually saccate basally;
    petals yellow to orange-yellow [rarely white], obovate, ovate, elliptic, or oblanceolate, claw often differentiated from blade, (sometimes attenuate basally, apex rounded or emarginate);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments slender;
    anthers oblong or ovate, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands confluent or not, median glands present.
    Fruits siliques, dehiscent, sessile or stipitate, segments 2, linear, torulose or smooth, terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate;
    valves each prominently 1-veined, glabrous;
    ovules [4–] 10–50 per ovary;
    stigma entire or 2-lobed.
    Seeds uniseriate, plump, not winged, globose;
    seed-coat (reticulate or reticulate-alveolate), mucilaginous or not when wetted;
    x = 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.