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The genus Brassica is in the family Brassicaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Brassica

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Brassica assyriaca Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica aucheri Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica balearica Pers.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica barrelieri (L.) Janka	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica brachyloma Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica cadmea Heldr. ex O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica carinata A.Braun	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica cretica Lam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica deflexa Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica deserti Danin & Hedge	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica desnottesii Emb. & Maire	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica dimorpha Coss. & Durieu	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica elongata Ehrh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica fruticulosa Cirillo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica gravinae Ten.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica hilarionis Post	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica incana Ten.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica insularis Moris	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica iranica Rech.f., Aellen & Esfand.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica macrocarpa Guss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica montana Pourr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica napus L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica nigra (L.) K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica nivalis Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica oleracea L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica oxyrrhina Coss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica procumbens (Poir.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica rapa L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica repanda (Willd.) DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica rupestris Raf.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica somalensis Hedge & A.G.Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica souliei Batt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica spinescens Pomel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica taurica (Tzvelev) Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica tournefortii Gouan	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica tyrrhena Giotta, Piccitto & Arrigoni	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Brassica villosa Biv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 380 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Brassica. Of these 38 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 589 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Brassica. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 380 species names for the genus Brassica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	38	10.0%
◕	Synonym	303	79.7%
◕	Unplaced	9	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	30	7.9%

All names

The status of the 969 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Brassica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	79	8.2%
◕	Synonym	848	87.5%
◕	Unplaced	9	0.9%
◕	Unassessed	33	3.4%

Of these names,

• 12 are recorded as invalid
• 19 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 380 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Brassica, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	37	293	0	0	330	86.8%
	Low confidence	1	10	9	30	50	13.2%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Brassica, are as follows: