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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Brassica juncea - L. Czern.
Family
Brassicaceae
Common Name
Rai, Indian Mustard, Brown Mustard
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Brassica argui H. Lev.
Habitat
Wild
Color Of Flower
Yellow
Key Characters
Leaves narrowed to base, distinctly petioled
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Polypetalae
 
Series :
Thalamiflorae
 
Order :
Parietales
Plant Description

Annual, erect, branched, glabrous, rarely glaucous or hispid herb; lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, toothed, with short or long petiole, upper subsessile, narrow, lanceolate, toothed; flowers bright yellow in long racemes; sepals-4, spreading; petals obovate, a disk with 4 glands at base; stamens-6, tetradynamous; ovary bicarpelary, syncarpous, stigma capitate or bilobed, style short; pods dehiscent, linear, lanceolate, thick, torulose, beak indehiscent, long, seedless, flattend, straight; seeds many, globose, small, dark, brown, finely rugose.

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