Scandix L.

Shepherd's needle (en), Peigne-de-Vénus (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae

Characteristics

Herbs annual. Stem slender, erect, branching above, shortly pubescent. Leaves petiolate; petioles narrowly sheathing for most of their length (especially in upper leaves) blade (1–)2–3-pinnate, ultimate segments narrowly linear (Chinese species). Umbels compound, terminal and lateral; bracts absent (or 1); rays few, sometimes reduced to one; bracteoles several, lobed or dissected. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, oblong, with a narrow incurved apex, sometimes unequal (radiate) in the outer flowers. Stylopodium flattened; styles erect, small. Fruit sub-cylindrical, slightly compressed laterally, erect; beak up to four times as long as the seed-bearing part; ribs slender, prominent; vittae very small. Seed face involute with deeply incurved lateral margins. Carpophore deeply bifid at apex.
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Fr linear to oblong, hispid or scabrous, the ± quadrate to subcylindric, evidently ribbed body tipped by a long, nearly ribless beak; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, or obsolete; carpophore entire, or cleft at the top; infl of compound or simple umbels, the ultimate umbels aggregated into a usually few-rayed primary umbel or ± scattered, often paired; invol wanting, or of a small leafy bract; involucel of several lobed or dissected foliaceous bractlets; sep minute or obsolete; pet white, the outer ones of the outer fls enlarged; small annuals; lvs pinnately dissected, with ± linear, small and rather short ultimate segments. 10, Old World.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Images

Scandix unspecified picture
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Distribution

Scandix world distribution map, present in China and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40487-1
WFO ID wfo-4000034238
COL ID 7CZG
BDTFX ID 87164
INPN ID 197407
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Scandicium Scandix Cyclotaxis Birostula

Lower taxons

Scandix stellata Scandix balansae Scandix palaestina Scandix damascena Scandix turgida Scandix iberica Scandix aucheri Scandix blepharicarpa Scandix verna Scandix australis Scandix pecten-veneris