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  1. Family: Brassicaceae Burnett
    1. Genus: Brassica L.

      1. Brassica rapa L.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Central & E. Medit. to Iran and Arabian Peninsula, NE. Tropical Africa. It is used to treat infection, blood system disorders and genitourinary system disorders, as a vegetable and for food.

    [UPB]

    The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

    Habit
    Herb.
    Ecology
    Alt. 1000 - 4200 m.
    Distribution
    Introduced and naturalised in Colombia.
    [CPLC]

    Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

    Distribution
    Naturalizada y adventicia en Colombia; Alt. 1000 - 4200 m.; Andes, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Valle del Cauca.
    Habit
    Hierba
    Conservation
    No Evaluada
    [FZ]

    Cruciferae, A. W. Exell. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960

    Habit
    Annual or biennial herb with stout or tuberous tap-root.
    Leaves
    Basal leaves stalked, bristly, lyrate-pinnatifid, upper ones sessile, amplexicaul, ± glaucous.
    Flowers
    Flowers bright yellow, in terminal racemes.
    Calyx
    Sepals spreading.
    Corolla
    Petals 4, 6–10 mm. long.
    Stamens
    Stamens 6.
    Fruits
    Silique curved, erect, slightly flattened with a long, tapering beak.
    Seeds
    Seeds 1–5–2 mm. in diam., blackish or reddish-brown.
    [FTEA]

    Cruciferae, Bengt Jonsell (University of Stockholm). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982

    Habit
    Annual or biennial herb with thin or stout, often fusiform to tuberous taproot.
    Stem
    Stem erect, branched, glabrous or slightly hispid below (rarely higher up), up to 150 cm. high.
    Leaves
    Basal leaves ± indistinctly petioled, bright green, hispidulous, lyrate-pinnatipartite, dentate, crenate or sinuate; terminal lobe large, orbicular to ovate, obtuse, cordate; lateral lobes in up to 5 pairs, rather small, ovate to triangular; lower cauline leaves sessile, clasping, pinnatifid; upper cauline leaves ± glaucous, sessile, distinctly clasping, undivided (fiddle-shaped, narrowly triangular or lanceolate), entire to repand-dentate.
    Inflorescences
    Racemes loosely corymbiform with open flowers overtopping the buds; in fruit very elongate; pedicels 10–30 mm. long.
    Calyx
    Sepals yellow-green, spreading, 5–8 mm. long.
    Corolla
    Petals yellow, clawed, with obovate slightly emarginate blade, 6–11 mm. long.
    Anthers
    Anthers ± 2 mm. long.
    Ovary
    Ovary with 20–30 ovules.
    Fruits
    Siliquae linear, rarely on a gynophore, 40–100 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. broad; beak 5–30 mm. long with 0–1 seed.
    Seeds
    Seeds dark brown, globose, 1.0–1.5 mm. in diameter, with a fine distinct reticulum.
    Habitat
    Cultivated land, abandoned fields; 1500–2600 m.
    Distribution
    K3 K4 T2 T6 U2 worldwide as an escape from cultivationpure weed form mainly European
    [UPB]
    Food
    'Roots' - edible (Florez-Cárdenas et al. 2010).
    Vegetables
    Flowers - Eaten as vegetables (Florez-Cárdenas et al. 2010).
    Gene Sources
    Crop wild relatives which may possess beneficial traits of value in breeding programmes (State of the World's Plants 2016).
    Blood System Disorders
    Used in the treatment of anemia (Florez-Cárdenas et al. 2010).
    Genitourinary System Disorders
    Used in the treatment of kidney stones (Florez-Cárdenas et al. 2010).
    Infections & Infestations
    Used as an antimicrobial agent (Florez-Cárdenas et al. 2010).

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, Yugoslavia

    Extinct in:

    Juan Fernández Is.

    Introduced into:

    Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Buryatiya, California, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Central European Rus, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Cook Is., Corse, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East European Russia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Falkland Is., Finland, Florida, France, Free State, Føroyar, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Gilbert Is., Great Britain, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Masachusettes, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Mozambique, Nebraska, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Carolina, South China Sea, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yakutskiya, Yukon, Zimbabwe

    Synonyms

    Common Names
    Spanish
    Nabos.

    Other Data

    Brassica rapa L. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Dec 1, 2000 Cable, S. [3046], Cameroon K000337523
    Savatier [s.n.], France K000653816
    Savatier [s.n.], France K000653817
    Briggs, T.R. [78c], Great Britain K000653813
    Briggs, T.R. [78c], Great Britain K000653815
    Briggs, T.R. [s.n.], Great Britain K000653814
    Prain, D. [s.n], India Brassica campestris var. sarson K000247162 Unknown type material
    Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 4791], India Sinapis dichotoma K001039911
    s.coll. [Cat. no. 4791] Sinapis dichotoma K001039904
    s.coll. [Cat. no. 4791] Sinapis dichotoma K001039905
    s.coll. [Cat. no. 4791] Sinapis dichotoma K001039906
    s.coll. [Cat. no. 4791] Sinapis dichotoma K001039907
    s.coll. [Cat. no. 4791] Sinapis dichotoma K001039908
    s.coll. [Cat. no. 4791] Sinapis dichotoma K001039909
    s.coll. [Cat. no. 4791], India Sinapis dichotoma K001039910
    s.coll. [Cat. no. 4791] Sinapis dichotoma K001039912

    Bibliography

    First published in Sp. Pl.: 666 (1753)

    Accepted by

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    • Gutiérrez, J. & Solano, E. (2014). Afinidades florísticas y fitogeográficas de la vegetación del municipio de San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, México Acta Botanica Mexicana 107: 27-65. Instituto de Ecología A.C.
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Science Photographs
    Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    Useful Plants of Boyacá Project
    ColPlantA database
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/