Brassicoideae Prantl, Text-book Bot.: 255. 1880 ( 'Brassiceae' )., 2023

German, Dmitry A., Hendriks, Kasper P., Koch, Marcus A., Lens, Frederic, Lysak, Martin A., Bailey, C. Donovan, Mummenhoff, Klaus & Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A., 2023, An updated classification of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), PhytoKeys 220, pp. 127-144 : 127

Brassicoideae Prantl, Text-book Bot.: 255. 1880 ( 'Brassiceae').

Type.

Brassica L.

Description.

Trichomes (simple and/or variously branched) and multicellular glands absent or present. Leaves entire to variously dissected, simple or compound, not articulate at base. Fruits various in compression, dehiscence, length to width ratio, number of seeds (one to> 100), etc. Base chromosome numbers various; the lowest x = 4.

Distribution.

Same as the whole family.

2. Supertribal division

Brassicoideae is subdivided into the following five supertribes corresponding to the main evolutionary lineages discussed in detail by Hendriks et al. (2022).