Family: Brassicaceae
Brassica nigra
Citation:
S. Kohl ex Koch in Roehl. Deutschl. Fl. edn 3, 4:713 (1833).
Synonymy: Sinapis nigra Common name: Black mustard.
Description:
Herb, annual, erect, to 1 m tall, hispid below, glaucous and glabrous above; lower leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, to 16 cm long, petiolate, reducing towards the apex.
Inflorescence subcorymbose; sepals half-spreading, 4-5 mm long; petals 7-9 mm long, bright-yellow.
Siliqua erect, 1-2 cm long, 15-2 mm wide, sessile; beak seedless, 1.5-3 mm long; seeds 2-5 per locule, ovoid, c. 1.5 mm wide.
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Image source: fig 209d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Bailey (1906) The weeds and suspected poisonous plants of Queensland, fig. 17.
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, SL, SE.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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