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2949.000 Brassica
Description of the genus
Annual or biennial herbs (in ours). Flowers yellow in ebracteate racemes. Sepals erect, inner pair saccate. Petals 4, contracted at base into a claw. Stamens 6. Fruit a beaked siliqua with 2 valves, each valve with 1 prominent vein; beak with 0-3 seeds. Seeds in 1 series, ± spherical. Worldwide: 35 species in Eurasia and the Mediterranean Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
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| Species | Content |
| juncea (L.) Czern. | Description, Image |
| rapa L. |
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Flora of Mozambique: Brassica
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Brassica
Flora of Zambia: Brassica
Flora of Zimbabwe: Brassica
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): BrassicaFlora Zambesiaca web site: Brassica
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Brassica
Wikipedia: Brassica
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Brassica
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Brassica
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