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Capsella
Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Capsella Medik.
Species
See text.

Capsella is a genus of herbaceous plant and biennial plants in the Mustard family Brassicaceae.^[1] It is a close relative of Arabidopsis, Neslia, and Halimolobos.^[2]

Some recent authors circumscribe Capsella to contain only three species: Capsella bursa-pastoris, Capsella rubella and Capsella grandiflora.^[2]

Species

• Capsella abscissa
• Capsella andreana
• Capsella australis
• Capsella austriaca
• Capsella bursa-pastoris (Shepherd's Purse)
• Capsella divaricata
• Capsella draboides
• Capsella gracilis
• Capsella humistrata
• Capsella hybrida
• Capsella hyrcana
• Capsella integrifolia
• Capsella lycia
• Capsella mexicana (syn. Bursa mexicana)
• Capsella pillosula
• Capsella pubens
• Capsella puberula
• Capsella rubella
• Capsella schaffneri (syn. Asta schaffneri)
• Capsella stellata
• Capsella tasmanica
• Capsella thomsoni
• Capsella thracica
• Capsella viguieri
• Capsella villosula

References

1. ^ "19. Capsella Medikus". Flora of China. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=105575.  
2. ^ ^{a b} Slotte, T. (2006), "Intrageneric phylogeny of Capsella (Brassicaceae) and the origin of the tetraploid C. Bursa-pastoris based on chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences", American Journal of Botany 93: 1714, doi:10.3732/ajb.93.11.1714, http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/93/11/1714  

From Wikispecies

Capsella may mean:

• In the Regnum Animalia - Capsella (Bivalvia : Donacidae)
• In the Regnum Plantae - Capsella DC. (Magnoliophyta : Brassicaceae)