Family: Brassicaceae
Brassica tournefortii
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.
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Image source: fig 209a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Leigh & Mulham (1965) Pastoral Plants of the Riverine Plain, p. 81; Orchard (1946) J. Dept Agric. S. Aust. 50:178.
Distribution:
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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.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: mainly July — Oct.
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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:
Not yet available
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