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  • COMMON NAME: African mustard, Asian mustard, wild-turnip.
  • ARABIC: خردله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Brassica tournefortii Gouan
  • SYNONYMS: Brassica sisymbrioides, Brassica stocksii, Eruca erecta, Erucastrum minutiflorum.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Stony) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/brassica_tournefortii.htm
Annual, 20-70 cm high, hisped below, glabrescent above. Stems simple or branched from base. Basal leaves 6-20 cm or more, rosulate, petiolate, lyrate-pinnatisect hispid, terminal lobe broadly ovate, obtuse; the upper stem-leaves smaller, sessile, oblong or linear, acute, denticulate or entire. Inflorescences of many flowers, corymbose, glabrous. Sepals 3-4 mm long, greenish-violate. Petals 6-8 mm long, pale yellow, linear or oblong, obtuse, long-clawed. Fruiting pedicels 8-30 mm long, spreading. Fruit a siliqua, 30-70 mm long, erect or ascending, torulose, glabrous with 10-20 mm long, curved beak. Seeds 1-2 mm in diameter, brown. Flowering from January to April.
Sandy soil and stony foothills.
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