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Published In: Species Plantarum 1: 256–257. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Distribution: Distribution: Europe, Asia, and in Australia, North and South America as an alien.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Venus’s Comb is a very common species from the plains to 2000 m during the spring season.
Illustration: Scandix pecten-veneris L. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-6 Chitral : Chitral Village, Stainton 2171 (BM, E, RAW) ; B-7 Hazara: Kaghan, Duthie 19592 (K, RAW) ; Daddar, Y. Nasir 5933 (RAW) ; Havelian-Haripur, Burtt 526 (E) ; Swat: Sultanwus, Qader, Razzaq & Nasib 225 (PFI-B) ; C-6 Tirah: Shah Qader, 12.2.68 (PFI-B) ; C-7 Kashmir: Bagh, Stewart & Nasir 23687 (RAW) ; Hilan Khurd, Kotli, Y. Nasir & Zaffar Ali 5457 (RAW); Nakial, R.R. Stewart 27294 (RAW) ; Rawalpindi Dist.: Jagdish Singh, 20.5.36 (RAW) ; Murree, 6000 ft., R.R. Stewart 1601 (RAW, K); D-4 Baluchistan: Stocks 747(K); Quetta, J. Lamond 914a (E); Quetta, R.R. Stewart 27986 (RAW).

 

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Plants up to 25 cm tall, pubescent or glabrescent, Leaves tripinnatisect; segments 1-4 mm long, linear; leaf bases sheathing; sheath margin ciliate or entire. Umbels terminal and lateral. Involucre of 1 linear bract or lacking. Rays 1-3, 1-2 (-4.) cm long. Involucel of several lanceolate, oval or ovate, ciliate bractlets, entire or incised at the apex. Fruit shortly pedicellate, 2.5-3.5 cm long; margin bristly; beak 2-3 times as long as the seed; style 1 mm long, twice as long as the stylopodium; furrows I-vittate; commissure 2-vittate; vittae minute. Inner seed face deeply sulcate.
 
 
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