2945.000 Sinapis L.

Description of the genus

Annual herbs (in ours). Flowers yellow. Sepals spreading horizontally, not saccate. Petals 4, unguiculate. Stamens 6. Fruit terete with convex valves, each 3-7-veined and with a long beak with 0-4(-9) seeds. Seeds in 1 series, subspherical.

Worldwide: 7 species in Europe and the Mediterranean

Zimbabwe: 1 taxon.

Sinapis arvensis

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arvensis L.C,EDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Sinapis:

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Sinapis
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Sinapis
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Sinapis
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Sinapis
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Sinapis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Sinapis
JSTOR Plant Science: Sinapis
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Sinapis
Plants of the World Online: Sinapis
Tropicos: Sinapis
Wikipedia: Sinapis

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Sinapis.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=618, retrieved 29 March 2024

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