Diplotaxis (plant)

Diplotaxis
Diplotaxis muralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Diplotaxis DC.

Foliage of Diplotaxis tenuifolia

Diplotaxis (wall-rocket) is a genus of 32–34 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), native to Europe, the Mediterranean region and Macaronesia; the species diversity is highest in the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa and the Cape Verde archipelago.^[1] They are annual or perennial plants, either herbaceous or sub-shrubby with a woody base. The flowers are yellow in most species, but are white in Diplotaxis erucoides subsp. erucoides and violet in Diplotaxis subg. Hesperidium.^[1] Some species, such as D. tenuifolia, can be used as leaf vegetables; they are similar to Eruca sativa in their peppery flavour and are used interchangeably with it.

Species

Diplotaxis contains the following species:^[1]

• Diplotaxis acris (Forssk.) Boiss.
• Diplotaxis antoniensis Rustan
• Diplotaxis assurgens (Delile) Thell.
• Diplotaxis berthautii Braun-Blanq. & Maire
• Diplotaxis brachycarpa Godron
• Diplotaxis brevisiliqua (Coss.) Mart.-Laborde
• Diplotaxis catholica (L.) DC.
• Diplotaxis cretacea Kolov
• Diplotaxis erucoides (L.) DC. – white wall-rocket
• Diplotaxis glauca (J.A.Schmidt) O.E.Schulz
• Diplotaxis gorgadensis Rustan
• Diplotaxis gracilis (Webb) O.E.Schulz
• Diplotaxis griffithii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Boiss.
• Diplotaxis harra (Forssk.) Boiss.
• Diplotaxis hirta (A.Chev.) Rustan & L.Borgen
• Diplotaxis ibicensis (Pau) Gómez-Campo
• Diplotaxis ilorcitana (Sennen) Aedo, Mart.-Laborde & Muñoz Garm.
• Diplotaxis kohlaanensis A. G. Miller & J. Nyberg
• Diplotaxis muralis (L.) DC. – annual wall-rocket
• Diplotaxis nepalensis Hara
• Diplotaxis ollivieri Maire
• Diplotaxis pitardiana Maire
• Diplotaxis scaposa DC.
• Diplotaxis siettiana Maire
• Diplotaxis siifolia Kunze
• Diplotaxis simplex (Viv.) Spreng.
• Diplotaxis sundingii Rustan
• Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC. – perennial wall-rocket
• Diplotaxis tenuisiliqua Delile
• Diplotaxis varia Rustan
• Diplotaxis villosa Boulos & W.Jallad
• Diplotaxis viminea (L.) DC.
• Diplotaxis virgata (Cav.) DC.
• Diplotaxis vogelii (Webb) Cout.

References

1. Domenico Pignone & Juan B. Martínez-Laborde (2011). Chittaranjan Kole, ed. Oilseeds. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources. Springer. pp. 137–147. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14871-2_7. ISBN 978-3-642-14871-2.