Apiaceae Lindl.
Scandix pecten-veneris L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 256 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat inter Germaniae & Europae australioris segetes."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1871), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(57): 149 [secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 67 BHL [secondary reference]
Ewart, A.J. (1907), Unrecorded introduced plants. The Victorian Naturalist 24(1): 16 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1909), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 23(6): 297 [secondary reference]
common name: Shepherd's Needle [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 229 [secondary reference]
common name: Venus's-comb [n/a] common name: Shepherd's-needle [n/a]
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 442, Fig. 180 [secondary reference]
common name: Venus's Comb [n/a]
Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 660, Fig. 909 [secondary reference]
common name: Venus's Comb [n/a]
Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 259 [secondary reference]
common name: Shepherd's Needle [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 67 [secondary reference]
Powell, J.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Apiaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 3: 107 [secondary reference]
common name: Shepherd's Needle [n/a]
State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]
common name: Shepherds Needle [n/a]
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]
common name: Shepherd's Needle [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Scandix pecten Scop. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Scandix pecten-veneris L. subsp. pecten-veneris legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Scandix pecten-veneris subsp. pecten-veneris in SA.
  • APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (formerly naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 8 [secondary reference]