Family: Brassicaceae
Brassica napus
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 666 (1753).
Synonymy: B. campestris L. subsp. napus (L.)Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1:156 (1872).
Common name: Rape, swede, coleseed, rutabaga.
Description:
Herb, annual or biennial, erect, to 1.5 m, tap root strong or tuberous; lower leaves glaucous, scarcely fleshy, lyrate, petiolate, bristled; upper leaves reducing to sessile and stem-clasping.
Inflorescence a convex corymb; sepals half-spreading, 5-7 mm long; petals 11-14 mm long, pale-yellow.
Siliqua obliquely erect, 45-100 mm long, 2.5-4 mm wide; beak narrower than the stigma, 5-30 mm long; seeds globular, 1.5-2.5 mm wide.
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Image source: fig 209e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Curtis (1975) Stud. Fl. Tas. edn 2, 1:fig. 11.
Distribution:
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Occasional escape from cultivation.
S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, SL, SE. Tas.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.
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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:
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