The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Brassica

The genus Brassica is in the family Brassicaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Brassica

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Brassica assyriaca Mouterde Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica aucheri Boiss. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica balearica Pers. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica barrelieri (L.) Janka Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica brachyloma Boiss. & Reut. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica cadmea Heldr. ex O.E.Schulz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica carinata A.Braun Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica cretica Lam. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica deflexa Boiss. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica deserti Danin & Hedge Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica desnottesii Emb. & Maire Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica dimorpha Coss. & Durieu Accepted L WCSP (in review)
Brassica elongata Ehrh. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica fruticulosa Cirillo Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica gravinae Ten. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica hilarionis Post Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica incana Ten. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica insularis Moris Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica iranica Rech.f., Aellen & Esfand. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica macrocarpa Guss. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica montana Pourr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica napus L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica nigra (L.) K.Koch Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica nivalis Boiss. & Heldr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica oleracea L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica oxyrrhina Coss. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica procumbens (Poir.) O.E.Schulz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica rapa L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica repanda (Willd.) DC. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica rupestris Raf. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica somalensis Hedge & A.G.Mill. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica souliei Batt. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica spinescens Pomel Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica taurica (Tzvelev) Tzvelev Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica tournefortii Gouan Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica tyrrhena Giotta, Piccitto & Arrigoni Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Brassica villosa Biv. Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 380 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Brassica. Of these 38 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 589 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Brassica. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 380 species names for the genus Brassica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 38 10.0%
Synonym 303 79.7%
Unplaced 9 2.4%
Unassessed 30 7.9%

All names

The status of the 969 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Brassica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 79 8.2%
Synonym 848 87.5%
Unplaced 9 0.9%
Unassessed 33 3.4%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 380 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Brassica, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 37 293 0 0 330 86.8%
Low confidence 1 10 9 30 50 13.2%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Brassica, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 22 0 4 0 26 6.8%
WCSP (in review) 38 281 9 26 1 355 93.4%