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Scandix stellata Banks & Solander

Description

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Plants 10–30 cm high. Leaf blade ovate, to 6 × 3 cm; ultimate segments 2–11 × ca. 0.5 mm. Rays 1–3, short, 3–8 mm; bracteoles conspicuously pinnate, 4–10 mm. Flowers subsessile, 5–14 per umbellule. Fruit 16–28 mm; beak long, 1.5–3 times as long as the seed-bearing part; seed-bearing part covered with coarse white bristles.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 14: 29 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Description

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Plants slender, up to 20 cm tall, pubescent. Leaves tripinnatisect; segments 2-10 mm long; filiform. Involucre of 1 linear bract or lacking. Rays 1 or 2. Involucel of several pinnately divided, pubescent bractlets; segments filiform. Flowers sessile. Fruits 6-15 per umbellet, 1.5-2.5 cm long, pubescent; margin bristly; beak 2-3 times as long as the seed; styles less than 1 mm long.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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eFloras.org
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Distribution

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Xinjiang (Tian Shan) [widespread in C and SW Asia and the Mediterranean region].
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 14: 29 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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eFloras.org
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Distribution

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Distribution: Southern Europe, Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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eFloras.org
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Habitat

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Grassy slopes, waste places, roadsides; ca. 2000 m.
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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 14: 29 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras