Flora canaria > Especies silvestres
Drusa glandulosa
Drusa glandulosa (Poir.) H. Wolff ex Engl.
Familia
APIACEAE
Pegajosa
Drusa glandulosa, commonly known as ‘pegajosa’, ‘repasaya’ or ‘iguaje’, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the Apiaceae family. It is the only species in its genus, making it a monotypic taxon of great botanical interest.
It is a herb with slender, creeping (prostrate) or ascending stems that are sparsely branched.
The leaves are opposite, membranous in texture, long-petiolate and divided into three main lobes (trilobed) with serrated margins.
The entire plant (stems, leaves and fruits) is covered in simple, star-shaped hairs and structures called glochids (small hooks). These hooks enable the plant to cling extremely easily to clothing or animal fur, hence its common name ‘sticky’.
Small flowers with white petals, arranged in axillary inflorescences (simple umbels) of 1 to 3 flowers. It flowers mainly between December and July.
The fruits are flattened in shape and have lateral ribs, which are also bearing glochids to aid their dispersal.
Drusa glandulosa is native to the Macaronesia region (found throughout the Canary Islands and Madeira) and to areas of northern and north-western Africa (such as Morocco and Somalia), extending as far as the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
It grows mainly in damp, shady areas on hillsides, in evergreen woodlands (laurisilva and fayal-brezal) and in thermophilic scrubland, generally at altitudes ranging from 300 to 1,000 metres above sea level. As its closest living relatives are found exclusively on the American continent (a phenomenon known as disjunct distribution), it is considered a botanical relict that has survived in these regions.
El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote
Pegajosa
Drusa glandulosa, commonly known as ‘pegajosa’, ‘repasaya’ or ‘iguaje’, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the Apiaceae family. It is the only species in its genus, making it a monotypic taxon of great botanical interest.
It is a herb with slender, creeping (prostrate) or ascending stems that are sparsely branched.
The leaves are opposite, membranous in texture, long-petiolate and divided into three main lobes (trilobed) with serrated margins.
The entire plant (stems, leaves and fruits) is covered in simple, star-shaped hairs and structures called glochids (small hooks). These hooks enable the plant to cling extremely easily to clothing or animal fur, hence its common name ‘sticky’.
Small flowers with white petals, arranged in axillary inflorescences (simple umbels) of 1 to 3 flowers. It flowers mainly between December and July.
The fruits are flattened in shape and have lateral ribs, which are also bearing glochids to aid their dispersal.
Drusa glandulosa is native to the Macaronesia region (found throughout the Canary Islands and Madeira) and to areas of northern and north-western Africa (such as Morocco and Somalia), extending as far as the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
It grows mainly in damp, shady areas on hillsides, in evergreen woodlands (laurisilva and fayal-brezal) and in thermophilic scrubland, generally at altitudes ranging from 300 to 1,000 metres above sea level. As its closest living relatives are found exclusively on the American continent (a phenomenon known as disjunct distribution), it is considered a botanical relict that has survived in these regions.
El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote
