Family: Brassicaceae
Raphanus sativus
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 669 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Radish, common radish.
Description:
Annual herbs, simple or branched, erect, 20-100 cm tall, hispid; tap root tuberous, edible; radical leaves lyrate-pinnatifid; cauline leaves reducing.
Sepals 6-10 mm long; petals 15-25 mm long, white to purple, with dark veins.
Siliqua 2-9 cm long, 8-15 mm wide; beak conical, to half the length of the valve region; valves inflated, spongy, scarcely constricted between the seeds, not articulating; seeds 5-12, globose, c. 3 mm wide.
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Image source: fig 220f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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An occasional garden escape.
S.Aust.: SL. Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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