Brassicacceae

Habit / body form

Herbs,shrubs

Annuals and perenials

Root

Modified tap root

(Napiform and fusiform)

Leaf

Simple

Petiolate

Exstipulate

Alternate phyllotaxy

Reticulate venation

Inflorescence

Simple raceme and compund corymb

Presence of bract

Ebracteate

Sexuality of flowers

Bisexual

Symmetry of flowers

Actinomorphic (exception-iberis)

Merosity of flowers

Tetramerous

Position of ovary

Hypogynous

Calyx

K 2+2

2 whorls(cycles)- each whorl 2 sepals

Polysepalous

Aestivation of calyx

Imbricate

Corolla

C x4 - cruciform

Polypetalous

Aestivation of corolla

Valvate

Androecium

A 2+4

Polyandrous

Tetradynamous

Gynoecium

Bicarpellary

Syncarpous

Stigma - bifid

Placentation

Parietal (mustard)

Ovary becomes bilocular from unilocular after development of replum

Many ovules

Fruit

Simple and dry fruit

Siliqua

Dehiscent

Elongated

Dehiscence from base to apex

Silicula

Small and rectangular shaped

Dehiscence is same

Lepidium, Iberis and capsella

Seeds

Dicot

Non endospermic

Special feature

Presence of pungent odour ( breakdown of sinirginbby myosin to isothiocyanotes