Scandix cerefoliumL. [family APIACEAE ] (stored under name); Torilis arvensis(Huds.) Link [family UMBELLIFERAE ] Verified by Per Lassen, Torilis arvensis(Huds.) Link [family APIACEAE ] Verified by Elizabeth Fortson Wells,
Related name
Torilis neglecta
Caucalis purpurea
Scandix cerefolium
Caucalis cordisepala
Torilis triradiata
Torilis aglochis
Torilis obscura
Scandix infesta
Caucalis heterops
Torilis dominici
Caucalis angustifolia
Torilis arvensis
Torilis helvetica
Torilis syriaca
Torilis africana
Torilis tenuifolia
Torilis infesta
Flora
Entry for TORILIS arvensis (Huds.) Link [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
TORILIS arvensis(Huds.) Link [family UMBELLIFERAE], (1821). Fig. 182.
Information
Plant up to c. 1 m tall; stems finely striate, glabrous or with stiff downwardly directed hairs. Leaves 2-pinnate with pinnatifid segments c. 2–8 x 1–3 mm, with stiff forwardly directed hairs particularly beneath; the lower ones petiolate, the upper sessile on the indistinctly demarcated sheaths. Umbels on 1.5–13 cm long peduncles; rays 2–12, c. 7–30 mm long, appressed strigulose; bracts absent or rarely 1 linear bract present; flowers c. 2–18 in each partial umbel, on 0–4 mm long pedicels; involucel of c. 4–8 bracteoles 1.5–5 mm long. Calyx-lobes small to obsolete. Petals white, pink or purple, setulose outside, c. 1 mm long, or the outermost petals of outer partial umbels up to c. 2 mm long. Fruits ellipsoid, c. 3–5 x 2–3 mm, densely covered by glochidiate-tipped spines along the obscure secondary ribs; styles about as long as to much longer than the stylopodia.
Range
N1, 2 widespread in Africa and Eurasia, introduced elsewhere.
Altitude range
1700–2050 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Collenette 366; Gillett & Heemstra 23652.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Notes
T. arvensis is sometimes subdivided into a number of subspecies and varieties (see e.g. Hegi, Ill. Fl. Mitteleur. 5(2): 1056 (1926) and Townsend in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1989). The Somali collections nearest belong to subsp. heterophylla (Guss.) Thell.
