Brassicaceae Family Identification Characteristics

May 13, 2024 | by Bloom Code Studio

Herbaceous plant with pungent sap having sulfur-containing glucosides.
Leaves are covered with fine hairs called trichomes.
Flowers ebracteate, bimerous or tetramerous, bisexual, actinomorphic, and hypogynous
Calyx contains four sepals, polysepalous arranged in two whorls.
Corolla contains four petals, polypetalous
Stamens are six in number, polyandrous
Stamens are associated with green nectaries
Carpels are two in number (Bicarpellary), syncarpous, ovary superior, and parietal placentation.
Fruits siliqua or silicula
Seed non-endospermic with the curved embryo.

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