List of Brassicaceae genera

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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).

Contents

The following list includes the 354 genera that are accepted by Plants of the World Online as of July 2025. [1] Other sources include the Update on the Brassicaceae species checklist [2] or v1.3 of BrassiBase (as accessed in late 2021). [3]

A–B

C–D

E–I

K–M

N–P

Q–S

T–Z

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Accepted in BrassiBase but not in the Updated Checklist
  2. ↑ Spelled "Anzhenxia" in BrassiBase.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Accepted in the Updated Checklist, but not in BrassiBase.
  4. ↑ Spelled "Phyllolepidium" in the Updated Checklist.
  5. ↑ Spelled "Raphanoryncha" in the Updated Checklist.

References

  1. ↑ Brassicaceae Burnett. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  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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