List of Brassicaceae genera

There are around 350 genera in the plant family Brassicaceae. The type genus is Brassica (cabbage and mustards). Genera with a large number of species are Alyssum (madworts), Arabis (rockcresses), Cardamine (bittercresses), Draba (whitlow-grasses), Erysimum (wallflowers), Heliophila, Lepidium (pepperworts), Noccaea, Odontarrhena, Physaria (bladderpods), and Rorippa (yellowcresses).

The following list includes the genera that are accepted by Plants of the World Online.[1] Other sources include the Update on the Brassicaceae species checklist[2] or v1.3 of BrassiBase (as accessed in late 2021).[3]

  1. ^ Brassicaceae Burnett. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
  2. ^ Francis, Ardath; Lujan-Toro, Beatriz E.; Warwick, Suzanne; Macklin, James A.; Martin, Sara L. (2021). "Update on the Brassicaceae Species Checklist". Biodiversity Data Journal. 9: e58773. doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e58773. PMC 7952366. PMID 33716543. The dataset is also available at https://data.catalogueoflife.org/dataset/2305/about (doi:10.48580/d4tm-4rj).
  3. ^ Koch, Marcus A.; Kiefer, Markus; German, Dmitry; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. "BrassiBase". Retrieved 31 December 2021.

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