EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: SCSMU
• Preferred name: Scorpiurus muricatus
• Authority: Linnaeus

S. muricatus has been regarded to include S. sulcatus and S. subvillous as subspecies, or synonyms. The respective overlapping geographical distributions of the three species remain to be fully resolved. S. muricatus, in the narrow sense, occurs in the western Mediterranean and Canary Islands. In Spain, it occurs in the south and east, and in Portugal in the south and centre.