Raphanus Linnaeus (Q3643)

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

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    taxon/id/Raphanus Linnaeus
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    Raphanus Linnaeus
    Raphanus
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Radish (English)
    Eurasia
    also nearly worldwide
    Stems erect, unbranched or branched.
    petiolate or subsessile;
    basal not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins lyrately lobed or pinnatifid to pinnatisect;
    cauline shortly petiolate or subsessile, blade (base not auriculate), margins dentate or lobed, (smaller and fewer-lobed than basal).
    Fruiting pedicels divaricate, ascending, or spreading [reflexed].
    Flowers: sepals erect, narrowly oblong [linear], lateral pair slightly saccate basally;
    petals white, creamy white, yellow, pink, or purple [lilac] (usually with darker veins), broadly obovate [suborbicular], claw differentiated from blade, (± longer than sepals, apex obtuse or emarginate [rounded]);
    stamens strongly tetradynamous;
    filaments not dilated basally;
    anthers oblong or oblong-linear, (apex obtuse);
    nectar glands (4), median pair present.
    Fruits siliques or silicles, indehiscent, sessile, segments 2, (lomentaceous, often breaking into 1-seeded units), cylindrical, fusiform, lanceolate, or ovoid, [linear, oblong, ellipsoid], smooth or torulose to strongly moniliform, (constricted or not between seeds), terete or polygonal;
    valves glabrous, antrorsely scabrous, or hispid;
    replum and septum not differentiated;
    stigma capitate, slightly 2-lobed.
    Seeds uniseriate, plump, not winged, oblong, ovoid, or globose [subglobose];
    seed-coat (nearly smooth to reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;