Overview

Comprehensive Description

Description

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, often ± aquatic. Leaves simple, entire to pinnate. Racemes bracteate or not. Petals white or yellow. Fruit a silicula or siliqua with seeds in 2 rows under each valve (in ours).
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Distribution

Localities documented in Tropicos sources

Rorippa Scop.:
Brazil (South America)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Colombia (South America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.
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Ecology

Associations

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Baris lepidii feeds on Rorippa

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Ceutorhynchus pectoralis feeds on Rorippa

Foodplant / gall
larva of Dasineura sisymbrii causes gall of inflorescence of Rorippa

Foodplant / open feeder
adult of Phaedon cochleariae grazes on live leaf of Rorippa
Remarks: season: 5-9

Foodplant / open feeder
imago of Phyllotreta ochripes grazes on leaf of Rorippa

Foodplant / open feeder
imago of Phyllotreta tetrastigma grazes on leaf of Rorippa

Foodplant / open feeder
imago of Psylliodes laticollis grazes on leaf of Rorippa

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Molecular Biology and Genetics

Molecular Biology

Statistics of barcoding coverage

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
                                        
Specimen Records:56Public Records:25
Specimens with Sequences:100Public Species:8
Specimens with Barcodes:78Public BINs:0
Species:13         
Species With Barcodes:13         
          
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Barcode data

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Locations of barcode samples

Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Rorippa

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Wikipedia

Rorippa sylvestris

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Rorippa

Rorippa is a flowering plant genus in the cabbage family (Brassicaceae), containing approximately 80 species native to Europe through central Asia, Africa, and North America. Rorippa species are annual to perennial herbs, usually with yellow flowers and a peppery flavour.

Rorippa formerly included several species of watercress, now placed in the genus Nasturtium. In particular, R. nasturtium-aquaticum (now N. officinale) and R. microphylla (now N. microphyllum) are often referred to as species of Rorippa.

Species include:

References


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