Eruca
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Annual herbs, glabrous or with simple hairs. Leaves lobed. Inflorescence a raceme. Sepals erect; petals clawed, white to pale yellow with purple veins; stamens 6; ovary sessile. Fruit elongate (at least 3 times as long as broad, excluding beak), sessile; stigma bilobed; valves flattened, with 1 prominent vein; beak large, flattened; seeds numerous, subglobose to ovoid, 2 rows per locule (at least in middle portion of fruit), beak seedless.
5 species, mostly from Mediterranean and northern Africa; 1 species an established weed in Australia.
Source:
Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Brassicaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 399–459. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Updated by: Val
Stajsic,
1 Oct. 2020
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