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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : toino

Scientific name: Torilis nodosa (L.) Gaertner


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: knotted hedge-parsley

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Knäuel-Klettenkerbel ; ES : cachurro ; FR : torilis noueux ; IT : lappolina nodosa ; PT : salsinha ; EN : knotted hedge-parsley ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow, lengthened ( > 10 times longer than wide).

- Leaves pinnately divided.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 15-40 cm. Plant hairy, scabrous.

- Stem decumbent, diffuse.

- Leaves bipinnatisect, with segments pinnatifid, linear entire or cut lobes.

- Flowers white or pink, small, regular, in umbel. Involucre absent; involucel with linear bracts, longer than the pedicels. Styles very short, erect, glabrous. Umbels sessile or subsessile, leaf -opposed.

- Fruit : achenes short, ovoid, inner tubercled, outer with straight thorn (rough awl ). Persistent carpophore on inflorescence after drooping of the fruit.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Torilis leptophylla


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