Brassica
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Description
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, rarely subshrubs, glabrous or with hispidulous simple hairs.
Leaves undivided to pinnatipartite.
Sepals erect, connivent or spreading, the inner larger and somewhat saccate.
Petals yellow or white, spathulated to clawed.
Stamens 6, the lateral ones often ascending, filaments linear.
Ovary cylindrical, sometimes on a gynophore;
Fruit a siliqua, readily dehiscent, terete or slightly laterally compressed, in transverse section ± biconvex, attenuate into a conical to filiform beak with 0—3 seeds;
Seeds usually globose, reticulate, not mucilaginous.