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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Brassica rapa ssp. rapa - L.
Family
Brassicaceae
Common Name
Shaljam, Turnip
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Brassica campestris ssp. rapa Hook.
Habitat
Cultivated
Color Of Flower
Pale Yellow
Key Characters
Stem reddish purple.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Polypetalae
 
Series :
Thalamiflorae
 
Order :
Parietales
Plant Description

Roots tuberous; stem condensed, often white with reddish purple tinge, hairy below, glabrous above; basal leaves lyrate, pinnatifid, upper ones cordate or amplexicaulate at base, clasping the cordate base, glabrous; flowers white/lilac or pale yellow, about 3 cm across, 30-40 in corymbose raceme; sepals-4, free, spreading; petals-4, obovate; stamens-6, tetradynamous; ovary 1-celled, many ovuled, stigma capitate, style beaked; fruit siliqua, linear or subtorulose; seeds 8-12, globose, pale yellow to brown.

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