List of Brassicaceae genera explained

There are around 350 genera in the plant family Brassicaceae. The type genus is Brassica (cabbage and mustards). Genera with a large number of species are Alyssum (madworts), Arabis (rockcresses), Cardamine (bittercresses), Draba (whitlow-grasses), Erysimum (wallflowers), Heliophila, Lepidium (pepperworts), Noccaea, Odontarrhena, Physaria (bladderpods), and Rorippa (yellowcresses).

The following list includes the genera that are accepted by Plants of the World Online.[1] Other sources include the Update on the Brassicaceae species checklist[2] or v1.3 of BrassiBase (as accessed in late 2021).[3]

A–B

C–D

E–I

K–M

N–P

Q–S

T–Z

Notes and References

  1. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30000087-2 Brassicaceae Burnett
  2. Francis. Ardath. Lujan-Toro. Beatriz E.. Warwick. Suzanne. Macklin. James A.. Martin. Sara L.. 2021. Update on the Brassicaceae Species Checklist. Biodiversity Data Journal. 9. e58773. 10.3897/BDJ.9.e58773. 33716543. 7952366. free. The dataset is also available at https://data.catalogueoflife.org/dataset/2305/about .
  3. Web site: Koch. Marcus A.. Kiefer. Markus. German. Dmitry. Al-Shehbaz. Ihsan A.. BrassiBase. 31 December 2021.

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