Diplotaxis muralis

Diplotaxis muralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Diplotaxis
Species:	D. muralis
Binomial name
	Diplotaxis muralis; (L.) DC.
Synonyms
	Sisymbrium murale

Diplotaxis muralis is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name annual wall-rocket. This plant is native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, but it is found throughout the temperate world, where it has naturalized. This is an erect mustardlike plant rarely reaching half a meter in height. It has lobed leaves and its stems are topped with dense inflorescences of yellow, or occasionally light purple, flowers with small oval petals and large anthers. The fruit is a podlike silique two to four centimeters long.

Several cytological and morphological studies have suggested that D. muralis originated from natural hybridization between D. tenuifolia and D. viminea.^[1]

Notes

^ Ueno O1, Wada Y, Wakai M, Bang SW (2006) "Evidence from photosynthetic characteristics for the hybrid origin of Diplotaxis muralis from a C3-C4 intermediate and a C3 species" Plant Biology (Stuttgart) 8(2):253-9..

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[1] Ueno O1, Wada Y, Wakai M, Bang SW (2006) "Evidence from photosynthetic characteristics for the hybrid origin of Diplotaxis muralis from a C3-C4 intermediate and a C3 species" Plant Biology (Stuttgart) 8(2):253-9..

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