Brassicoideae

{{Short description|Subfamily of plants}}

{{Expert needed|taxonomy

| date = March 2025

| reason = The taxonomy appears to have been recently revised

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| taxon = Brassicoideae

| authority = Prantl & Karl

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Brassicoideae is a subfamily contained within the family Brassicaceae of flowering plants.{{cite web |title=Subfamily Brassicoideae |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1473853-Brassicoideae |website=iNaturalist |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=en-US}} It is one of the two subfamilies of Brassicaceae, along with Aethionemoideae, and contains five supertribes -- Arabodae, Brassicodae, Camelinodae, Heliophilodae, and Hesperodae.{{Cite journal |last1=German |first1=Dmitry A |last2=Hendriks |first2=Kasper P |last3=Koch |first3=Marcus A |last4=Lens |first4=Frederic |last5=Lysak |first5=Martin A |last6=Bailey |first6=C Donovan |last7=Mummenhoff |first7=Klaus |last8=Al-Shehbaz |first8=Ihsan A |date=2023-03-06 |title=An updated classification of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) |journal=PhytoKeys |language=en |issue=220 |pages=127–144 |doi=10.3897/phytokeys.220.97724 |doi-access=free |pmid=37251613 |pmc=10209616 |bibcode=2023PhytK.220..127G }}{{Cite journal |last1=Hendriks |first1=Kasper P. |last2=Kiefer |first2=Christiane |last3=Al-Shehbaz |first3=Ihsan A. |last4=Bailey |first4=C. Donovan |last5=Hooft van Huysduynen |first5=Alex |last6=Nikolov |first6=Lachezar A. |last7=Nauheimer |first7=Lars |last8=Zuntini |first8=Alexandre R. |last9=German |first9=Dmitry A. |last10=Franzke |first10=Andreas |last11=Koch |first11=Marcus A. |last12=Lysak |first12=Martin A. |last13=Toro-Núñez |first13=Óscar |last14=Özüdoğru |first14=Barış |last15=Invernón |first15=Vanessa R. |date=2023-10-09 |title=Global Brassicaceae phylogeny based on filtering of 1,000-gene dataset |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223010692 |journal=Current Biology |volume=33 |issue=19 |pages=4052–4068.e6 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.026 |pmid=37659415 |bibcode=2023CBio...33E4052H |issn=0960-9822|hdl=20.500.11850/632775 |hdl-access=free }} Containing the vast majority of genera and 98.6% of species within the mustard family, it has the same distribution as the family in general -- that is, a cosmopolitan distribution focused on temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.