Brassica fruticulosa Cirillo // Infraspecifics: Brassica fruticulosa ssp. fruticulosa, it is a perennating, erect herb, up to 1.5 m tall, glabrous to pubescent ± glaucous, often becoming woody at base. Lower leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, long-petioled, hispid; terminal lobe suborbicular, larger; lateral lobes in 2-3 pairs, oblong. Upper leaves smaller, sub sessile or shortly petioled, pinnately-lobed to entire. Flowers 10-15 mm across, yellow. Pedicels 10-15 mm long, filiform ascending and sub spreading in fruit. Sepals c. 5 mm long, erect, glabrous to villous. Petals c. 1cm long. Siliquae 15-40 (-70) x c. 2 mm, with 2-7 mm long, 0-1 seeded beak, torulose on valves, with 1-3 mm long gynophores. Seeds c. 1 mm long, sub globose-ellipsoid, brown.
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