Isatis

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Isatis
Isatis tinctoria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Isatis
L.
Species

About 30 species, including:
Isatis boissieriana
Isatis glauca
Isatis tinctoria
others (see text)

Synonyms[1]
List
    • Boreava Jaub. & Spach
    • Martinsia Godr.
    • Pachypteris Kar. & Kir.
    • Pachypterygium Bunge
    • Sameraria Desv.
    • Tauscheria Fisch. ex DC.
    • Tetrapterygium Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

Isatis is a genus of

woad (Isatis tinctoria). Due to their extremely variable morphology, the Asian species in particular are difficult to determine; the only reliable diagnostic feature is the ripe fruit. They are (usually) biennial or perennial herbaceous plants, often bluish and hairless or downy hairy with the upright stem branched.[2]

Description

They are annual, biennial or perennial, branched herbs, usually

glabrous and glaucous except silique. Basal leaves generally elliptic-oblong, sessile
; sessile caulinary, rounded to oval-oblong.

The

Racemose
is branched or paniculated, ebracted, inflorescence, often reaching lax and elongated in the fruit.

The fruit is a generally linear silique, oblong-cuneate to suborbicular, indehiscent, flattened laterally, unilocular, little to conspicuously winged, glabrous or with tiny hairs.[3]

Species

Currently accepted species include:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Isatis Tourn. ex L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  2. ^ H. Moazzeni et al .: Phylogeny of Isatis (Brassicaceae) and allied genera based on ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA and morphological characters. In: Flora (Elsevier), Volume 205, 2010, pp. 337–343.
  3. ^ Flora of North America Editorial Committee, e. 2010. Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Fl. N. Amer. 7: i – xxii, 1–797.


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