Brassica insularisMoris

WFO wfo-0000571168 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Brassica insularis, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. a Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / 2011-03-06 / obs. 3239786
Brassica insularis, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. b Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3239785
Brassica insularis, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. c Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3239782
Brassica insularis, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. d Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3239783
Brassica insularis, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. e Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3239784

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Brassica insularis is native: Algeria, Tunisia, Corse, Sardegna, Sicilia AlgeriaTunisiaCorseSicilia Sardegna
Native distribution of Brassica insularis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Corse COR EUROPE
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Tunisia TUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 27 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Brassica amblyphylla Jord.
  • Brassica atlantica (Coss.) O.E.Schulz
  • Brassica atlantica Coss. & Durieu ex Munby
  • Brassica calcarea Jord.
  • Brassica conferta Jord.
  • Brassica corsica Jord.
  • Brassica cretica subsp. atlantica (Coss.) Onno
  • Brassica erigens Jord.
  • Brassica flexicaulis Jord.
  • Brassica hololeuca Jord.
  • Brassica insularis var. angustiloba (Briq.) O.E.Schulz
  • Brassica insularis var. aquellae Widler & Bocquet
  • Brassica insularis var. conferta (Jord.) O.E.Schulz
  • Brassica insularis var. insularis Moris
  • Brassica insularis var. latiloba (Briq.) O.E.Schulz
  • Brassica luteola Jord.
  • Brassica olerace subvar. atlantica Coss.
  • Brassica oleracea f. atlantica (Coss.) Rouy & Foucaud
  • Brassica oleracea subsp. insularis Briq.
  • Brassica oleracea subsp. insularis (Moris) Rouy & Foucaud
  • Brassica oleracea subvar. angustiloba Briq.
  • Brassica oleracea var. atlantica (Coss.) Batt.
  • Brassica oleracea var. corsica Briq.
  • Brassica oleracea var. insularis Coss.

and 3 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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