View source for Eruca ← Eruca You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Eruca |accepted_authority=Miller |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. |place=4, vol. 1. 1754 |year=1754 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae;Eruca |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eruca]]</div></div> |etymology=Latin uro, burn, alluding to the burning taste of seeds |volume=Volume 7 |mention_page=page 226, 233, 244, 419 |treatment_page=page 434 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; not scapose; glabrous, hirsute, or hispid, (trichomes often retrorse). <b>Stems</b> erect, branched [unbranched]. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins usually lyrate-pinnatifid or pinnatipartite, rarely bipinnatisect or undivided; cauline shortly petiolate or sessile, blade (base not auriculate), margins entire, dentate, or pinnatifid. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose), greatly elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels erect to ascending, stout. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals (sometimes persistent), erect, oblong [linear], (connivent), lateral pair saccate basally; petals cream or yellow (with dark brown or purple veins), broadly obovate, claw differentiated from blade (± equal to sepals, apex obtuse or emarginate); stamens strongly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers oblong or linear, (base sagittate, apex obtuse); nectar glands (4), distinct, median pair present. <b>Fruits</b> siliques, dehiscent, sessile, segments 2, linear or oblong [elliptic], not torulose, terete or slightly 4-angled; (terminal segment indehiscent, flattened and ensiform, seedless); valves each with prominent midvein, (coriaceous), glabrous, hirsute, or hispid; replum rounded; septum complete, (membranous); ovules 10–50 per ovary; (style obsolete); stigma conical, 2-lobed (lobes connivent, decurrent). <b>Seeds</b> biseriate, plump, not winged, [sub]globose or ovoid; seed coat (minutely reticulate), mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Eurasia;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Atlantic Islands;Australia. |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Eruca |author=Suzanne I. Warwick |authority=Miller |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Brassicaceae |distribution=Eurasia;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Atlantic Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. |publication year=1754 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_652.xml |tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae |genus=Eruca }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Brassicaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Eruca.