Brassica L. [family CRUCIFERAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 181, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Brassica L. [family CRUCIFERAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 666 (1753); Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 299 (1754).
Information
Annual or biennial (rarely perennial) herbs, glabrous or with simple hairs. Flowers usually yellow, pedicellate, in ebracteate racemes. Sepals erect, inner pair ± saccate. Petals 4, unguiculate. Stamens 6. Fruit a beaked silique with convex valves, each valve with 1 prominent vein, beak with 0–3 seeds. Seeds 1-seriate, subspherical. Cotyledons conduplicate.
Notes
In addition to the species dealt with below, forms of B. oleracea L.(Cabbage etc.), glabrous and glaucous with sessile but not amplexicaul cauline leaves, may be found as escapes from cultivation and B. tournefortii Gouan has been found as an impurity in seed from Australia.
Brassica L. [family CRUCIFERAE]
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