Scandix pecten-veneris L., Sp. Pl. 256 1753. (syn: Chaerophyllum pecten-veneris (L.) Crantz; Chaerophyllum rostratum Lam.; Myrrhis pecten-veneris (L.) All.; Pecten veneris Lam. (Unresolved); Pectinaria vulgaris Bernh. (Unresolved); Scandix cornuta Gilib. (Unresolved); Scandix cretica Mill. (Unresolved); Scandix persica Mart.; Scandix rostrata Salisb. (Unresolved); Scandix vulgaris Gray (Unresolved); Scandix wilhelmsii K.Koch ex Boiss. (Unresolved); Selinum pecten E.H.L.Krause (Unresolved); Wylia pecten-veneris (L.) Bubani);

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Scandix pecten-veneris (shepherd's-needle, Venus' comb, Venus's needle) is a plant species in the parsley family. It is native to Eurasia and it is known widely elsewhere as an introduced species and sometimes a weed. It is named for its long fruit, which has a thickened body up to 1.5 centimeters long and a beak which can measure up to 7 centimeters long and is lined with comblike bristles.

(from Wikipedia on 19.6.15)

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Scandix pecten-veneris Linn., Sp. Pl. 256. 1753. 

Common annual weed with spreading habit; leaves multipinnatisect with linear segments; flowers white often tinged pink in lateral and terminal umbels; involucre bract single or absent; rays up to 3 with lanceolate to ovate involucel bracts; fruit with long beak, margin bristly.

Hazuribagh, Srinagar, Kashmir May, 2012 

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