SCANDIX L. - SHEPHERD’S-NEEDLE
Scientific Description:
Annual herbs with slender taproots and 1−3-pinnate leaves with deeply divided segments. Umbels usually leaf-opposed. Bracts 0−1. Bracteoles present. Sterile umbels occasionally present. Sepals absent. Petals white, outer often radiant. Fruit linear, ± terete, with a long beak sometimes clearly compressed. Primary ridges ± conspicuous, secondary absent. Vittae slender, not obvious, dorsal 5, commissural 0−2.
Reference:
Hedge IC & Lamond JM (1972). Scandix L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 325.
Public Description:
Scandix is a genus of annual herbs commonly known as “shepherd's-needle”, and is native to Mediterranean basin, Balkans, Caucasus, South and West Asia, Middle East and Iran. There are 8 species in the world and Türkiye. They have white colored umbrella-shaped flowers and deeply divided thin leaves.
References:
Hedge IC & Lamond JM (1972). Scandix iberica L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 327.
Menemen Y (2012). Sanicula L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 78.
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