''Descurainia bourgaeana'' (hierba pajonera or flixweed) is a species of flowering plant in the family

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endemic to Las Cañadas del Teide on

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and

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in the

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

References

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

Flora of the Mt. Teide National Park
bourgaeana Endemic flora of the Canary Islands Flora of Tenerife Plants described in 1865 {{Brassicales-stub