View source for Raphanus ← Raphanus 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=Raphanus |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=2: 669. 1753 |year=1753 }}, {{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Pl. ed. |place=5, 300. 1754 |year=1754 }} |common_names=Radish |basionyms= |synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym |name=Quidproquo |authority=Greuter & Burdet |rank=genus }} |hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae;Raphanus |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>[[Raphanus]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek raphanos, radish |volume=Volume 7 |mention_page=page 225, 226, 233, 244 |treatment_page=page 438 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or biennials; (roots slender or fleshy, size, shape, and color variable in cultivated forms); not scapose; glabrous or pubescent. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched or branched. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or subsessile; basal not rosulate, petiolate, blade margins lyrately lobed or pinnatifid to pinnatisect; cauline shortly petiolate or subsessile, blade (base not auriculate), margins dentate or lobed, (smaller and fewer-lobed than basal). <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose, several-flowered), usually greatly elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate, ascending, or spreading [reflexed]. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, narrowly oblong [linear], lateral pair slightly saccate basally; petals white, creamy white, yellow, pink, or purple [lilac] (usually with darker veins), broadly obovate [suborbicular], claw differentiated from blade, (± longer than sepals, apex obtuse or emarginate [rounded]); stamens strongly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers oblong or oblong-linear, (apex obtuse); nectar glands (4), median pair present. <b>Fruits</b> siliques or silicles, indehiscent, sessile, segments 2, (lomentaceous, often breaking into 1-seeded units), cylindrical, fusiform, lanceolate, or ovoid, [linear, oblong, ellipsoid], smooth or torulose to strongly moniliform, (constricted or not between seeds), terete or polygonal; (valvular segment seedless, rudimentary, or aborted, nearly as wide as pedicel; terminal segment several-seeded, corky); valves glabrous, antrorsely scabrous, or hispid; replum and septum not differentiated; ovules 2–22 per ovary; (style slender); stigma capitate, slightly 2-lobed. <b>Seeds</b> uniseriate, plump, not winged, oblong, ovoid, or globose [subglobose]; seed coat (nearly smooth to reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons conduplicate. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Eurasia;introduced also nearly worldwide. |discussion=<p>Species 3 (2 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Natural hybridization between <i>Raphanus raphanistrum</i> and <i>R. sativus</i> has been known since 1788, and the hybrid has been named R. ×micranthus (Uechtritz) O. E. Schulz. The transfer of some of the weedy characters from <i>R. raphanistrum</i> to <i>R. sativus</i> through natural hybridization may have played a major role in converting the latter from a crop plant into a successful weed near the coastal areas of central California (C. A. Panetsos and H. G. Baker 1968). <i>Raphanus</i> confusus (Greuter & Burdet) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick is known from Asia (Israel, Lebanon).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Petals pale or creamy white; fruits (2.5-)3-8(-11) mm wide, strongly constricted between seeds and usually breaking, strongly ribbed, beak narrowly conical. |[[Raphanus raphanistrum|Raphanus raphanistrum]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Petals usually purple or pink, sometimes white; fruits (5-)7-13(-15) mm wide, rarely slightly constricted between seeds and usually not breaking, not ribbed, beak narrowly to broadly conical to linear. |[[Raphanus sativus|Raphanus sativus]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Raphanus |author=Suzanne I. Warwick |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms=Quidproquo |basionyms= |family=Brassicaceae |distribution=Eurasia;introduced also nearly worldwide. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed. |publication year=1753;1754 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_661.xml |tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae |genus=Raphanus }}<!-- -->[[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/ID/Synonym (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Raphanus.