Descurainia bourgaeana
Descurainia bourgaeana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Rosids |
Order: | Brassicales |
Family: | Brassicaceae |
Genus: | Descurainia |
Species: | D. bourgaeana |
Binomial name | |
Descurainia bourgaeana (Gray) O.E.Schulz | |
Descurainia bourgaeana (hierba pajonera or flixweed) is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family endemic to Las Cañadas del Teide on Tenerife[1]:140 and La Palma[2] in the Canary Islands.
Descurainia bourgaeana grows as shrubby clumps about 1 metre in height with yellow flowers.
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Desurainia bourgaeana in close up
References
- ↑ Bramwell, D.; Bramwell, Z. (2001). Wild flowers of the Canary Islands. Madrid, Spain: Editorial Rueda. ISBN 84-7207-129-4.
- ↑ "Flora Vascular de Canarias: Descurainia bourgeauana (E. Fourn.) O. E. Schulz". Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- Barbara E. Goodson, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, and Robert K. Jansen, Molecular systematics of Descurainia (Brassicaceae) in the Canary Islands: biogeographic and taxonomic implications, Taxon 55 (3), August 2006: 671–682
- Flora of the Mt. Teide National Park
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