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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 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| juncea (L.) Czern. | N,C,E | Description, Image |
| rapa L. | N,E |
Other sources of information about Brassica:
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Flora of Botswana: BrassicaFlora of Burundi: Brassica
Flora of Malawi: Brassica
Flora of Mozambique: Brassica
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Brassica
Flora of Zambia: Brassica
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Brassica
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): BrassicaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Brassica
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Brassica
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Brassica
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iNaturalist: Brassica
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Brassica
JSTOR Plant Science: Brassica
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Brassica
Plants of the World Online: Brassica
Tropicos: Brassica
Wikipedia: Brassica
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