Flora canaria > Especies silvestres
Scandix brachycarpa
Scandix pecten-veneris L. ssp. brachycarpa (Guss.) Thell.
Familia
APIACEAE
Aguja de pastor
Scandix pecten-veneris ssp. brachycarpa is a subspecies of the annual plant commonly known as Venus’s comb or shepherd’s needle, belonging to the Apiaceae family.
This particular subspecies is botanically notable for the morphology of its fruits. Whilst the nominate species (Scandix pecten-veneris) is characterised by fruits bearing an extremely long beak resembling a needle or comb, the brachycarpa subspecies (whose epithet literally means ‘short fruit’) develops fruits that are noticeably shorter in comparison.
It is an annual herb with slender, branched stems that usually reach between 15 and 50 cm in height. Its leaves are deeply divided (bi- or tripinnately dissected) into linear segments.
It bears inflorescences in small umbels with 1 to 3 rays, with markedly unequal white petals (the outer ones being larger).
It grows wild mainly in ruderal areas, along roadsides, on wasteland and in cultivated fields (as a weed).
Although it has a multi-regional distribution across the Mediterranean basin, within Spain it has notable populations in the Canary Islands (where it is considered a probable introduced species), and is formally listed in the Canary Islands Biodiversity Database.
Tenerife
Aguja de pastor
Scandix pecten-veneris ssp. brachycarpa is a subspecies of the annual plant commonly known as Venus’s comb or shepherd’s needle, belonging to the Apiaceae family.
This particular subspecies is botanically notable for the morphology of its fruits. Whilst the nominate species (Scandix pecten-veneris) is characterised by fruits bearing an extremely long beak resembling a needle or comb, the brachycarpa subspecies (whose epithet literally means ‘short fruit’) develops fruits that are noticeably shorter in comparison.
It is an annual herb with slender, branched stems that usually reach between 15 and 50 cm in height. Its leaves are deeply divided (bi- or tripinnately dissected) into linear segments.
It bears inflorescences in small umbels with 1 to 3 rays, with markedly unequal white petals (the outer ones being larger).
It grows wild mainly in ruderal areas, along roadsides, on wasteland and in cultivated fields (as a weed).
Although it has a multi-regional distribution across the Mediterranean basin, within Spain it has notable populations in the Canary Islands (where it is considered a probable introduced species), and is formally listed in the Canary Islands Biodiversity Database.
Tenerife
