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Daucus abyssinicus

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Name

Identification
Daucus abyssinicus Hochst. [family UMBELLIFERAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Daucus hochstetteri A.Br. ex Engl. [family UMBELLIFERAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • daucus hochstetteri
  • Daucus abyssinicus
  • Daucus hochstetteri
  • Caucalis abyssinica
  • Durieua abyssinica
  • Daucus abyssinica
  • Daucus hochstetterii
  • daucus abyssinicus
  • caucalis abyssinica

Flora

Entry for DAUCUS Carota Linn. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 1, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
DAUCUS Carota Linn. [family UMBELLIFERAE], DC. Prod. iv. 211.
Daucus abyssinicus C. A. Mey. [family UMBELLIFERAE], in Index Hort. Petrop. ix. 68.
Information
Erect, hispid, biennial. Leaves 2 or 3 times pinnate, with small or linear acute segments. Umbels terminal on long peduncles of many crowded primary and secondary rays; involucre of many crowded leaflike bracts, and involucels of many linear or trifid acute bracteoles. Fruit 1/8 in. long; spines of the fruit shorter than its thickness.
Range
Occurs also widely distributed in Europe, temperate Asia and India, N. Africa, and introduced in N. America and Australia.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! fl. and fr. December.
Notes
Abyssinian name, Kuerta adagi .

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