Descurainia bourgaeana

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae}}

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|image = Descurainia bourgaeana LC0218.jpg

|genus = Descurainia

|species = bourgaeana

|authority = (E.Fourn.) Webb ex O.E.Schulz

|synonyms =

  • Hesperis bourgaeana {{small|(E.Fourn.) Kuntze}}
  • Sisymbrium bourgaeanum {{small|E.Fourn.}}

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Descurainia bourgaeana (E.Fourn.) Webb ex O.E.Schulz |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60460459-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=16 February 2025}}

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Descurainia bourgaeana (hierba pajonera or flixweed) is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae endemic to Las Cañadas del Teide on Tenerife{{cite book|last1=Bramwell|first1=D.|last2=Bramwell|first2=Z.|year=2001|title=Wild flowers of the Canary Islands|publisher=Editorial Rueda|location=Madrid, Spain|ISBN=84-7207-129-4}}{{rp|140}} and La Palma{{cite web |title=Flora Vascular de Canarias: Descurainia bourgeauana (E. Fourn.) O. E. Schulz|url=http://www.floradecanarias.com/descurainia_bourgeauana.html |accessdate=18 June 2016}} in the Canary Islands.

Descurainia bourgaeana grows as shrubby clumps about 1 metre in height with yellow flowers.

Image:Descurainia bourgaeana Tenerife 2.jpg

References

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{{Reflist}}

  • [http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/ib/faculty/jansen/pubs/Goodson%20et%20al.%202006.pdf 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]
  • [http://www.todotenerife.es/index.php?sectionID=13&lang=2&s=2&ID=3877 Flora of the Mt. Teide National Park]

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bourgaeana

Category:Endemic flora of the Canary Islands

Category:Flora of Tenerife

Category:Plants described in 1865

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