Citation: Gouan, Illustr. 44:t. 20 (1773).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Long-fruited wild turnip, Mediterranean (or wild) turnip.

Description:
Herb, annual, erect, to 60 cm tall, hispid below, glabrous above; lower leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, with 6-10 pairs of lobes, petiolate, reducing towards the apex.

Inflorescence a flat-concave corymb; sepals erect, 3-4 mm long; petals 5-8 mm long, pale-yellow to white.

Siliqua erect to spreading, 3-7 cm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, sessile; beak 1- or 2-seeded, conical, as wide as the stigma, 8-20 mm long; seeds ovoid, c. 2 mm wide.

	Brassica tournefortii
Image source: fig 209a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Leigh & Mulham (1965) Pastoral Plants of the Riverine Plain, p. 81; Orchard (1946) J. Dept Agric. S. Aust. 50:178.

Distribution:  Widespread aggressive weed established in a wide range of habitats from the coast to semi-arid inland regions. S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to the Mediterranean and Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: mainly July — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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