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Taxon:  Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. juncea (Brassica juncea Raya and Mustard Groups)



Summary
Genus:
Brassica
Family:
Brassicaceae (alt. Cruciferae)
Tribe:
Brassiceae
Nomen number:
400711
Comment:
[or Brassica juncea Raya and Mustard Groups]
Verified:
04/10/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. integrifolia (H. West) Thell. (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. integrifolia (H. West) Thell. var. crispifolia L. H. Bailey (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. integrifolia (H. West) Thell. var. integrifolia (H. West) Sinskaya (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. integrifolia (H. West) Thell. var. japonica (Thunb.) L. H. Bailey (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. integrifolia (H. West) Thell. var. longidens L. H. Bailey (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. integrifolia (H. West) Thell. var. rugosa (Roxb.) M. Tsen & S. H. Lee (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. integrifolia (H. West) Thell. var. strumata M. Tsen & S. H. Lee (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. integrifolia (H. West) Thell. var. subintegrifolia Sinskaya (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. napiformis (Pailleux & Bois) Gladis (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. tsatsai (T. L. Mao) Gladis, nom. nud.? var. multiceps M. Tsen & S. H. Lee (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. tsatsai (T. L. Mao) Gladis, nom. nud.? var. tumida M. Tsen & S. H. Lee (0 active accession[s])
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. var. juncea (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Sinapis juncea L.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Sinapis juncea L. var. juncea

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Brassica cernua (Thunb.) F. B. Forbes & Hemsl.
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. var. gracilis M. Tsen & S. H. Lee
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. var. multisecta L. H. Bailey
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. var. oleifera Prain
Sinapis cernua Thunb.
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Reference(s)
  1. Bailey, L. H. 1930. The cultivated Brassicas; second paper. Gentes Herbarum 2:258.
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
  3. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948-1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials.
  4. Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
  5. Fu, J. et al. 2006. Genetic diversity of traditional Chinese mustard crops Brassica juncea as revealed by phenotypic differences and RAPD markers. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 53:1513-1519.
  6. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
  7. Hammer, K. et al. 2013. The wild and the grown - Remarks about the botanical classification of Brassica. Acta Hort. 1005:49-59.
  8. Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
  9. Hara, H. et al. 1978-1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
  10. International Energy Agency. 2004. Biofuels for transport: an international perspective. (on-line resource). 1-216.
  11. Kitamura, S. 1950. The cultivated brassicae of China and Japan. Mem. Coll. Sci. Kyoto Imp. Univ., Ser. B, Biol. 19:76.
  12. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
  13. O'Sullivan, P. 1999. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
  14. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  15. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  16. Song, K. et al. 1988. Brassica taxonomy based on nuclear restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). 1. Genome evolution of diploid and amphidiploid species. Theor. Appl. Genet. 745:784-794.
  17. University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
  18. Warwick, S. I. et al. 2006. Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-Rom. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:249-258. Note: lists in database
  19. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Common names
English
brown mustard –
canola –
Indian mustard –
oilseed mustard –
French
moutarde brune –
German
brauner Senf –
Sareptasenf –
India
rai –
raya –
Japanese Rōmaji
karashi –
Portuguese
mostarda-vermelha –
Spanish
mostaza de Sarepta –
mostaza india –
Transcribed Chinese
jie cai –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    also cult. elsewhere in temperate regions
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChina  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
4NaturalizedAfrica Africa  
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan  
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateCaucasusGeorgia  
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateSiberiaRussian Federation-Eastern SiberiaEastern Siberias.
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateSiberiaRussian Federation-Western SiberiaWestern Siberias.
4NaturalizedEuropeEastern EuropeRussian Federation-European partEuropean part 
4NaturalizedNorthern America North America  
4NaturalizedSouthern America South America  
5UncertainAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKazakhstan  
5UncertainAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKyrgyzstan  
5UncertainAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTajikistan  
5UncertainAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTurkmenistan  
5UncertainAsia-TemperateMongoliaMongolia  
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan
Naturalized
Africa
  • REGION: Africa
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Georgia
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia (s.)], Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia [Eastern Siberia (s.)]
Europe
  • EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part]
Northern America
  • REGION: North America
Southern America
  • REGION: South America
Uncertain
Asia-Temperate
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
  • MONGOLIA: Mongolia
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalsoil improver University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
Food additivesflavoring Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Fuelspotential as petroleum substitute/alcoholfide http://www.iea.org/textbase/nppdf/free/2004/biofuels2004.pdf,International Energy Agency. 2004. Biofuels for transport: an international perspective. (on-line resource). 1-216.
Human foodoil/fatfide Gent Herb 2:261. 1930; Wealth India RMCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948-1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials.
Human foodvegetable Fu, J. et al. 2006. Genetic diversity of traditional Chinese mustard crops Brassica juncea as revealed by phenotypic differences and RAPD markers. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 53:1513-1519.
Medicinesfolklorefor making mustard plasters fide F USSRWu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=400711. Accessed 26 April 2025.