# Diplotaxis (plant)
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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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| image = Kleine zandkool R0013711.JPG
| image_caption = ''[Diplotaxis muralis](/source/Diplotaxis_muralis)''
| taxon = Diplotaxis (plant)
| authority = [DC.](/source/A._P._de_Candolle)
| synonyms = ''Pendulina'' {{small|Willk.}}
| synonyms_ref = [{{cite web |title=''Diplotaxis'' DC. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12525-1 |website=[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |access-date=26 September 2025}}]
}}
[[File:Grote zandkool 23-08-2005 12.54.30.JPG|thumb|upright|Foliage of ''[Diplotaxis tenuifolia](/source/Diplotaxis_tenuifolia)'']]
'''''Diplotaxis''''' ('''wall-rocket''') is a genus of 39 species of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the family [Brassicaceae](/source/Brassicaceae) (Cruciferae), native to Europe, the [Mediterranean region](/source/Mediterranean_region), [Macaronesia](/source/Macaronesia), Western Asia, the Himalayas, and northeastern tropical Africa;[ the species diversity is highest in the [Iberian Peninsula](/source/Iberian_Peninsula), [North Africa](/source/North_Africa) and the [Cape Verde](/source/Cape_Verde) archipelago.][{{cite book |author1=Domenico Pignone|author2= Juan B. Martínez-Laborde |title= Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources |year=2011 |chapter=Diplotaxis |pages=137–147 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-14871-2_7 |editor=Chittaranjan Kole |publisher=[Springer](/source/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media) |isbn=978-3-642-14871-2}}] They are [annual](/source/annual_plant) or [perennial](/source/perennial_plant) plants, either [herbaceous](/source/herbaceous) or [sub-shrub](/source/sub-shrub)by with a [woody](/source/woody_plant) base. The [flower](/source/flower)s are yellow in most species, but are white in ''[Diplotaxis erucoides](/source/Diplotaxis_erucoides)'' and violet in ''[Diplotaxis acris](/source/Diplotaxis_acris)''.[{{cite journal|last1=Grillo|first1=Oscar|last2=Draper|first2=David|last3=Venora|first3=Gianfranco|last4=Bautista Martinez-Laborde|first4=Juan|title=Seed image analysis and taxonomy of Diplotaxis DC.(Brassicaceae, Brassiceae)|journal=Systematics and Biodiversity|date=2012|volume=10|issue=1|pages=57–70|url=https://www.academia.edu/24232078|access-date=14 October 2016|doi=10.1080/14772000.2012.658881|s2cid=86153208}}]
==Species==
39 species are accepted.[
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*''[Diplotaxis acris](/source/Diplotaxis_acris)'' ([Forssk.](/source/Peter_Forsskal)) [Boiss.](/source/Pierre_Edmond_Boissier)
*''[Diplotaxis antoniensis](/source/Diplotaxis_antoniensis)'' [Rustan](/source/%C3%98yvind_H._Rustan)
*''[Diplotaxis assurgens](/source/Diplotaxis_assurgens)'' ([Delile](/source/Alire_Raffeneau_Delile)) [Thell.](/source/Albert_Thellung)
*''[Diplotaxis australis](/source/Diplotaxis_australis)'' {{small|Mart.-Laborde}}
*''[Diplotaxis berthautii](/source/Diplotaxis_berthautii)'' [Braun-Blanq.](/source/Josias_Braun-Blanquet) & [Maire](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Maire)
*''[Diplotaxis brachycarpa](/source/Diplotaxis_brachycarpa)'' Godron
*''[Diplotaxis brevisiliqua](/source/Diplotaxis_brevisiliqua)'' ([Coss.](/source/Ernest_Saint-Charles_Cosson)) [Mart.-Laborde](/source/Juan_B._Martinez-Laborde)
*''[Diplotaxis brochmannii](/source/Diplotaxis_brochmannii)'' {{small|(Rustan) Rivas Mart., Lousã, J.C.Costa & Maria C.Duarte}}
*''[Diplotaxis catholica](/source/Diplotaxis_catholica)'' ([L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)) DC.
*''[Diplotaxis cossoniana](/source/Diplotaxis_cossoniana)'' {{small|(Reut. ex Boiss.) O.E.Schulz}}
*''[Diplotaxis cretacea](/source/Diplotaxis_cretacea)'' Kolov
*''[Diplotaxis cyrenaica](/source/Diplotaxis_cyrenaica)'' {{small|(E.A.Durand & Barratte) Maire & Weiller}}
*''[Diplotaxis duveyrieriana](/source/Diplotaxis_duveyrieriana)'' {{small|Coss.}}
*''[Diplotaxis erucoides](/source/Diplotaxis_erucoides)'' (L.) DC. – white wall-rocket
*''[Diplotaxis glauca](/source/Diplotaxis_glauca)'' ([J.A.Schmidt](/source/Johan_Anton_Schmidt)) O.E.Schulz
*''[Diplotaxis gorgadensis](/source/Diplotaxis_gorgadensis)'' Rustan
*''[Diplotaxis gracilis](/source/Diplotaxis_gracilis)'' ([Webb](/source/Philip_Barker_Webb)) O.E.Schulz
*''[Diplotaxis griffithii](/source/Diplotaxis_griffithii)'' ([Hook.f.](/source/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker) & [Thomson](/source/Thomas_Thomson_(botanist))) Boiss.
*''[Diplotaxis harra](/source/Diplotaxis_harra)'' (Forssk.) Boiss.
*''[Diplotaxis hirta](/source/Diplotaxis_hirta)'' (A.Chev.) Rustan & L.Borgen
*''[Diplotaxis ibicensis](/source/Diplotaxis_ibicensis)'' (Pau) [Gómez-Campo](/source/Cesar_G%C3%B3mez-Campo)
*''[Diplotaxis ilorcitana](/source/Diplotaxis_ilorcitana)'' (Sennen) Aedo, Mart.-Laborde & Muñoz Garm.
*''[Diplotaxis kohlaanensis](/source/Diplotaxis_kohlaanensis)'' A. G. Miller & J. Nyberg
*''[Diplotaxis muralis](/source/Diplotaxis_muralis)'' (L.) DC. – annual wall-rocket
*''[Diplotaxis nepalensis](/source/Diplotaxis_nepalensis)'' Hara
*''[Diplotaxis ollivieri](/source/Diplotaxis_ollivieri)'' Maire
*''[Diplotaxis pitardiana](/source/Diplotaxis_pitardiana)'' Maire
*''[Diplotaxis saharensis](/source/Diplotaxis_saharensis)'' {{small|(Coss.) Mart.-Laborde}}
*''[Diplotaxis × schweinfurthii](/source/Diplotaxis_%C3%97_schweinfurthii)'' {{small|O.E.Schulz}}
*''[Diplotaxis siettiana](/source/Diplotaxis_siettiana)'' Maire
*''[Diplotaxis siifolia](/source/Diplotaxis_siifolia)'' [Kunze](/source/Gustav_Kunze)
*''[Diplotaxis simplex](/source/Diplotaxis_simplex_(plant))'' ([Viv.](/source/Domenico_Viviani)) [Spreng.](/source/Curt_Polycarp_Joachim_Sprengel)
*''[Diplotaxis sundingii](/source/Diplotaxis_sundingii)'' Rustan
*''[Diplotaxis tenuifolia](/source/Diplotaxis_tenuifolia)'' (L.) DC. – perennial wall-rocket
*''[Diplotaxis tenuisiliqua](/source/Diplotaxis_tenuisiliqua)'' Delile
*''[Diplotaxis varia](/source/Diplotaxis_varia)'' Rustan
*''[Diplotaxis villosa](/source/Diplotaxis_villosa)'' [Boulos](/source/Loutfy_Boulos) & Jallad
*''[Diplotaxis viminea](/source/Diplotaxis_viminea)'' (L.) DC.
*''[Diplotaxis virgata](/source/Diplotaxis_virgata)'' ([Cav.](/source/Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_Cavanilles)) DC.
*''[Diplotaxis vogelii](/source/Diplotaxis_vogelii)'' (Webb) Cout.
*''[Diplotaxis × wirtgenii](/source/Diplotaxis_%C3%97_wirtgenii)'' {{small|Rouy & Foucaud}}
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==References==
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Category:Diplotaxis (plant)
Category:Brassicaceae genera
Category:Taxa described in 1821
Category:Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
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