Raphanus sativus
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Description
Annual or usually biennial herb with thickened napiform to cylindrical taproot, hispid especially in lower parts.
Sepals lanceolate, obtuse, 5-10 mm long.
Petals white, yellow or lilac, ± dark-veined, 15-20 mm long with obovate, emar-ginate to rounded blade, 5-6 mm broad.
Seeds brownish, ellipsoid to globose, 1.5-4 mm long, finely reticulate.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia cultivated); Philippines (Philippines cultivated)
Only known as a cultivated species, which has probably originated from hybrids between forms of R. raphanistrum L. In Malesia as a weed (probably escaped from cultivation) at least in Java, probably elsewhere. Cultivated also in the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines, probably elsewhere.
Citation
BACKER & BAKH.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 188
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 1566
BACKER 1907: Fl. Batavia: 50
Miq. 1858 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 93
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 287
QUIS. 1951: Medic. Pl. Philip.: 336
OCHSE & BAKH. 1931: Ind. Groenten: 178
Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila: 214
HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl. Ned. Ind.: 679
STONE 1981 – In: Fed. Mus. J.: 80