Scandix L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 326-327

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0402C-FE99-E231-F685-F25DDEF0FCE5

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scientific name

Scandix L.
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14. Scandix L. View in CoL 1

Leaves (l-)2- to 3-pinnate, with narrow lobes. Umbels with few rays, sometimes reduced to one ray only. Sepals absent. Petals white, oblong, often very unequal in the outer flowers; apex incurved or inflexed. Fruit subcylindrical, slightly compressed laterally; beak up to four times as long as the seed-bearing part. Ridges prominent, slender; vittae very slender.

All species occur in open habitats, often as weeds.

1 Bracteoles obviously pinnate, with narrow, linear, patent lobes

1. stellata 1 Bracteoles entire or with 2 or more coarse, irregular teeth or forward-pointing lobes

2 Beak somewhat compressed laterally, not very clearly differentiated from the seed-bearing part of the fruit; carpophore usually 2-fid at the top 2. australis 2 Beak strongly compressed dorsally and obviously distinct from the seed-bearing part of the fruit; carpophore entire

3. pecten-veneris

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Apiales

Family

Apiaceae

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