Brassicoideae

Brassicoideae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Subfamily:
Prantl & Karl

Brassicoideae is a subfamily contained within the family Brassicaceae of flowering plants.[1] It is one of the two subfamilies of Brassicaceae, along with Aethionemoideae, and contains five supertribes -- Arabodae, Brassicodae, Camelinodae, Heliophilodae, and Hesperodae.[2][3] Containing the vast majority of genera and 98.6% of species within the mustard family, it has the same distribution as the family in general -- that is, a cosmopolitan distribution focused on temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.[2]

Taxonomy

Brassicoideae contains the following five supertribes:[2][3]

  • Arabodae
  • Brassicodae
  • Camelinodae
  • Heliophilodae
  • Hesperodae

References

  1. ^ "Subfamily Brassicoideae". iNaturalist. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  2. ^ a b c German, Dmitry A; Hendriks, Kasper P; Koch, Marcus A; Lens, Frederic; Lysak, Martin A; Bailey, C Donovan; Mummenhoff, Klaus; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A (2023-03-06). "An updated classification of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae)". PhytoKeys (220): 127–144. Bibcode:2023PhytK.220..127G. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.220.97724. PMC 10209616. PMID 37251613.
  3. ^ a b Hendriks, Kasper P.; Kiefer, Christiane; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.; Bailey, C. Donovan; Hooft van Huysduynen, Alex; Nikolov, Lachezar A.; Nauheimer, Lars; Zuntini, Alexandre R.; German, Dmitry A.; Franzke, Andreas; Koch, Marcus A.; Lysak, Martin A.; Toro-Núñez, Óscar; Özüdoğru, Barış; Invernón, Vanessa R. (2023-10-09). "Global Brassicaceae phylogeny based on filtering of 1,000-gene dataset". Current Biology. 33 (19): 4052–4068.e6. Bibcode:2023CBio...33E4052H. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.026. hdl:20.500.11850/632775. ISSN 0960-9822. PMID 37659415.