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    Family: Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) Mustard Family

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    The document summarizes characteristics of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It notes that the family includes 375 genera and 3250 species found worldwide, especially in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Members can be annual, biennial, or perennial herbs and include important crop plants like mustards, cabbages, and radishes. Key identifying features include a pungent sulfur smell, lyrate leaves, tetramerous and cruciform flowers, and fruits that are siliques or silicles.

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    The document summarizes characteristics of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It notes that the family includes 375 genera and 3250 species found worldwide, especially in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Members can be annual, biennial, or perennial herbs and include important crop plants like mustards, cabbages, and radishes. Key identifying features include a pungent sulfur smell, lyrate leaves, tetramerous and cruciform flowers, and fruits that are siliques or silicles.

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    It is a brief explanation of the characters of cruciferae family

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    The document summarizes characteristics of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It notes that the family includes 375 genera and 3250 species found worldwide, especially in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Members can be annual, biennial, or perennial herbs and include important crop plants like mustards, cabbages, and radishes. Key identifying features include a pungent sulfur smell, lyrate leaves, tetramerous and cruciform flowers, and fruits that are siliques or silicles.

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    Family: Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) Mustard Family

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    The document summarizes characteristics of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It notes that the family includes 375 genera and 3250 species found worldwide, especially in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Members can be annual, biennial, or perennial herbs and include important crop plants like mustards, cabbages, and radishes. Key identifying features include a pungent sulfur smell, lyrate leaves, tetramerous and cruciform flowers, and fruits that are siliques or silicles.

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    Family: CRUCIFERAE (BRASSICACEAE) MUSTARD FAMILY

    Distribution: cosmopolitan in distribution, more common in temperate region of


    northern hemisphere, this family includes 375 genera and 3250 species.

    Habitat: terrestrial, Mesophyte, wild or cultivate for oil and vegetables.

    Habit: annual or biennial (Raphanus sativus, Brissica rapa), or perennial herb


    (Cheiranthus, Colchearia), possess pungent sulphur smelling.

    Root: tap root system, sometime modified into napiform ( Brissica rapa), or fusiform
    (Raphanus sativus).

    Stem: aerial, erect or trailer (Coronopus), or highly reduced (Raphanus sativus,


    Brissica rapa), or reduced as bud (Brissaca olaracea var capitata), branched,
    cylindrical, solid, pubescent or glabrous.

    Leaf: radical (Raphanus sativus, Brissica rapa), cauline and ramal, alternate,
    exstipulate, petiolate, simple, lyrate, entire,glabrous or pubescent, unicoasted
    reticulate venation.

    Inflorescence: Racemose, Raceme, corymb (iberis amara)

    Flower: ebraceate, pediceellate, actinomorphic or zygomorphic (Iberis amara),


    complete, bisexual, tetramerous, hypogynous or perigynous (Lepidium), polycyclic,
    cruciform, various colour.

    Calyx: sepals four, polysepalous, arranged in two whorls, anterior and posterior are
    in outer whorl, laterals are in inner whorl, petaloid, imbricate aestivation,
    boat-shaped, deciduous, inferior.

    Corolla: petals four, polypetalous, alternate with sepals, petal consist of claw and
    limb, valvate aestivation, cruciform, in Iberis anterior two petals are larger than
    posterior petals, petals reduced in Coroponus, absent in Lepidium, inferior.

    Androecium: stamens six, tetradynamous, rarely two Senebiera, sixteen in


    Megacarpea, polyandrous, didynanous (Coronopus didymus), anther dithecous,
    basifixed or dorsifixed, nectary glands are present at base of filaments, inferior.

    Gynoecium: carpel two, rarely three (Lepidium), four (Tetrapoma), bicarpillary,


    syncarpous, ovary superior, unilocular but bilocular due to development of false
    septum called replum, parietal placentation, style short, stigma capitate or bilobed.

    Fruit: simple, dry, dehiscent, siliqua or silicula.

    Seed: two cotyledons, ex-albuminous.

    Floral formula:
    Floral diagram:

    Identifiying characters
    Possess pungent sulphur smell
    Lyrate leaf
    Tetramerous and curciform flower
    Four sepals are arranged in two whorls, boat-shaped
    Petals consist of claw and limb
    Tetradynamous stamens, nectary glands present at base of filament
    Bilocular due to development of replum
    Parietal placentation
    Fruit is siliqua or silicula

    Classification:
    Kingdom: Plantae
    Division: Phanerogams
    Sub-divison: Angiospermae
    Class: Dicotyledonae
    Sub-class: Polypetalae
    Series: Thalamiflorae
    Order: Parietales
    Family: Brassicaseae (Cruciferae)

    Economically important plants


    Brassica rapa
    Brassica juncea
    Brassica campestris
    Raphanus sativus
    Brassica olaracae var. capitata
    Brassica olaracae var. botrytis

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