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|accepted_name=Myagrum
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 640. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 289. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Isatideae;Myagrum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Isatideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myagrum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek muagron, name used by Dioscorides and Pliny for a species of mustard
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 230, 239
|treatment_page=page 568
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; not scapose; (glaucous), glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile; basal (soon withered), not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins pinnatifid, runcinate, sinuate, or dentate; cauline blade (base auriculate, sagittate, or amplexicaul), margins entire or denticulate. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels appressed to rachis, stout. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals oblong to ovate, lateral pair subsaccate basally; petals oblong to oblanceolate, (slightly longer than sepals), claw undifferentiated from blade, (apex obtuse); stamens tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers oblong, (apex obtuse); nectar glands (4) lateral, and (2) median (sometimes obscurely confluent with lateral). <b>Fruits</b> silicles, sessile, obpyriform to clavate-obcordiform, (woody, broadest distal to middle), slightly angustiseptate; (seed-bearing locule basal, 1 (or 2)-seeded, distal 2 locules seedless); replum rounded; ovules 2 per ovary; style distinct, (flattened, triangular); stigma capitate. <b>Seeds</b> plump, not winged, oblong to ovoid; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Europe;sw Asia;introduced also in Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Myagrum
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=s Europe;sw Asia;introduced also in Africa;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Isatideae
|genus=Myagrum
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