Family: Brassicaceae
Brassica elongata
Citation:
Ehrh., Beitr. Naturk. 7:159 (1792).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Herb, biennial or perennial, erect, to 1 m tall; leaves fleshy, glaucous, hispid, petiolate, elliptic in outline, sinuate or shallowly pinnatifid, reducing towards the apex.
Inflorescence a concave corymb; sepals erect, 3-5 mm long; petals 6-10 mm long, pale-yellow.
Siliqua obliquely erect, 1-4 cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, gynophore 0.5-4 mm long; beak seedless, tapering, 0.5-2 mm long; seeds 6-8 per locule, ovoid, 1-1.5 mm wide.
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Image source: fig 209h in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Hegi (1962) Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa 4, 1:fig. 255.
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Distribution:
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An occasional weed of disturbed soils.
S.Aust.: NL, MU. Native to Europe and Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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