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PLANT FAMILY:
BRASSIVACEAE
PAPAVERACEAE
PRESENTED BY :
Iram Fatima___018
kiran shahzadi____019
Misbah Ismail____022
Maryam Muneeb___025
Brassicaceae
Family
GENERAL Character :
• Flower actinomorphic
• Hermaphrodite
• Arranged-cruciform;
• Stamen six
• Tetradynamous;
• Gynoecium bicarpellary
• Syncarpous
• Parietal placentation
• Bilocular
• Fruit siliqua or silicula.
A. Vegetative characters:
Habit:
Generally herbs, annual or biennial or shrubs.
Roots:
Tap root, It may be conical (Radish), fusiform or
napiform (Turnip).
Stem:
Herbaceous, erect, rarely woody or some times
reduced or hairy, solid and branched.
Leaves:
Alternate , simple, exstipulate (Brassica campestris).
B. Floral characters:
Inflorescence:
Raceme (Brassica campestris)
corymbose raceme (Iberis)
Flower:
Pedicellate
hermaphrodite
actinomorphic rarely zygomorphic
Hypogynous
Cont..
Androecium:
Stamens 6, arranged in two whorls,
outer two stamens short and inner four long (2+4),
tetradynamous,
polyandrous,
Gynoecium:
Bicarpellary rarely tricarpellary
Syncarpous
ovary superior, unilocular
parietal placentation
ovules many, style short, stigma simple.
Cont..
Fruit:
Siliqua or silicula, sometimes lomentum (Raphanus)
Seed:
Exalbuminous
Pollination:
Self or cross pollinated
Anemophilous pollination is found in Pringlea.
DISTRIBUTION OF BRASSICACEAE
3. Medicines:
The leaves and tender shoots of Lepidium sativum
are used in liver complaints, asthma, cough and
bleeding piles.
Iberis amara is used in rheumatism and gout.
Evolutionary trends
Primitive characters:
1. Leaves simple and alternate.
2. Flowers hermaphrodite, hypogynous
3. Calyx and corolla free.
4. Stamens polyandrous.
5. Ovules anatropous.
Cont..
Advanced characters:
1. Plants are generally herbs-annual or biennials.
2. Leaves exstipulate.
3. Flowers ebracteate
4. Gynoecium bicarpellary and syncarpous.
5. Fruit simple.
Common plants
bloodroot
California poppy
celandine poppy
creamcups
bleeding heart
Dutchman’s breeches
Tree poppy
Horn poppy
REFFERENCES
www.biologydiscussion.com
www.britannica.com
www.reed.edu
www.pakbs.org
www.bioone.org
THANKS...