''Daucus insularis'' is a species of flowering plants of the family
Apiaceae
Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus '' Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plan ...
. The species is endemic to
Cape Verde.
[Oromí, Martín, Zurita & Cabrera, 2005 : ]
Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: Hongos, Plantas y Animales Terrestres.
' Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, p. 41 The species was first described by
Filippo Parlatore
Filippo Parlatore (Palermo, 8 August 1816 – Florence, 9 September 1877) was an Italian botanist.
He studied medicine at Palermo, but practiced only for a short time, his chief activity being during the cholera epidemic of 1837. Although at tha ...
in 1849 as ''Tetrapleura insularis''.
Distribution and ecology
''Daucus insularis'' occurs on the islands of
Santo Antão,
São Vicente,
São Nicolau,
Santiago
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and
Brava
Brava or La Brava may refer to:
Geography
*Brava, Cape Verde, a volcanic island
*Brava, Costa Rica, an island of Costa Rica (Isla Brava)
*Costa Brava, a coastal area Mediterranean of northeast Spain
* Barawa, a town in Somalia commonly known as ' ...
.
References
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insularis
Endemic flora of Cape Verde
Plants described in 1850