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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Brassicaceae
Rapistrum

Citation: Crantz, Cl. Crucif. Emend. 105 (1796).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual or biennial herbs.

Sepals half-spreading, slightly dimorphic; petals shortly clawed; stamens 6; median nectariferous glands present.

Fruit a silicula, indehiscent, differentiated into 2 segments; lower segment cylindrical, sometimes fertile; upper segment globose, fertile, beaked; cotyledons conduplicate; radicle incumbent.

Distribution:  2 or 4 species in central Europe, the Mediterranean, and western Asia; 1 species established in Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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