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DAUCUS abyssinicus Hochst. [family UMBELLIFERAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 abyssinicus Hochst. [family UMBELLIFERAE], in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 331, non C. A. Mey. Caucalis abyssinica Hochst. [family UMBELLIFERAE], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sec. i. 338. Durieua abyssinica Boiss. [family ], in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, ii. 51.
Information
Annual, 1/2–1 ft. high, erect, with scattered setose hairs, but shining. Stem terete, striate. Leaves oblong or ovate, the lower ones on long petioles terete except at the clasping base; segments linear-acute. Umbels sessile, opposite the leaves, of few- often 1-flowered rays. Fruiting rays 1/5– 1/3 in. long. Involucre of linear-acute bracts; petals whitish-rose colour. Fruit with minutely glochidiate spines on the secondary rays longer than the thickness of the fruit, 1/5 in. long by 1/15 in. thick; spines 1/10 in. long.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Fr. October.
DAUCUS abyssinicus Hochst. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
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