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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Torilis Adans.

TORILIS Adans.

Hairy annual, rarely biennial, herbs. Lvs 1-3-pinnate; segments broad or narrow. Umbels compound, pedunculate or subsessile and lf-opposed; bracts present or 0, simple; bracteoles several, simple. Petals white to pinkish, sometimes irregular, with apex entire and inflexed; calyx teeth evident or 0. Fr. cylindric to ovoid, slightly flattened laterally, not beaked, tuberculate or spinous; commissure narrow; primary ribs slender, obscured by spines, ciliate; vittae solitary.

Key

1
Procumbent; umbels mostly subsessile; rays 1-5 mm long; inner mericarps tuberculate, outer spinous
3 *nodosa
Erect; umbels long-pedunculate; rays 5-20-(30) mm long; all mericarps spinous
2
2
Bracts 0-1; rays (2)-3-9; spines for fr. curved and thickened at tip
1. *arvensis
Bracts (2)-4-6; rays (2)-6-11; spines of fr. hooked and pointed
2. *japonica

c. 15 spp., Macaronesia, W. Europe, Mediterranean to E. Asia. Naturalised spp. 3.

Fig. 13. Spines of Torilis frs. A T. arvensis; B T. japonica. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X44]
Fig. 13. Spines of Torilis frs. A T. arvensis; B T. japonica. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X44]
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