Genera within a family

Family: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

BRASSICACEAE (La)
Mustard and Cabbage Family (Le)

brassica, brassicae, = cabbage; varieties of cabbage.
(ld)

BRACHYCARPAEA (G)
Wild Stock, Bergviool (Le)

brachys, = short, few, little;
carpos, = fruit.
(with short fruit)
(LS, BL)

diplos-, = twice as much;
(double)
taxis, = an arranging, arrangement;
(arrangement, order, regularity)
(seeds are in two rows)
(LS, BL, Le)

HELIOPHILA (G)
Sunflax (Wf) Sporrie (Le)

(h)elios, = the sun;
philios, = loving, friendly, kind.
(the plant favours a sunny position)
(most species only open in sunlight)
(LS, Le, LB)

LEPIDIUM (G)
Pepper wort, Pepper Weed, Peperbossie (Le)

lepis, = a scale, husk, shell;
(scale (of fish, snake), flake)
-idium, = diminutive.
(the small pods)
(LS, BL, Le)

NASTURTIUM (La)

So named according to Pliny from its pungency. (Narium tormento)
nasus, = the nose; the nose as a seat of quick smell;
nares, narium, = the nostrils, the nose;
torto, tortare, = to torture, torment.
(Ox, ld)

RAPISTRUM (G)

raphe, = a turnip, rape;
rapum, = a knob or lump formed by the roots of a tree;
-astrum, = indicates inferiority or incomplete resemblance, hence often applied to wild equivalent of a cultivated plant.
(referring to the leaves)
(ld, BL, Le)

CORONOPUS (G, La)

coronos, = a crow or raven;
pous, podos, = a foot.
coronopus, = crow-foot; Plantago coronopus, buckshorn-plantain.
(shape of the leaf)
(LS, ld, Le)

BRASSICA (La)

brassica, = cabbage.
(ld)