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Glabrous, aromatic annual. Leaves 3–4-pinnate, continually dissected into fine filiform segments. Umbels compound, numerous, leaf-opposed; involucre and involucel none. Flowers polygamous. Calyx-teeth absent. Petals yellow, strongly incurved at the tip and emarginate. Fruit elliptic-oblong, strongly dorsally compressed, the mericarps not narrowed to the broad commissure; primary ribs pale, conspicuous, the 3 dorsal filiform, the 2 laterals expanded into a rather thick wing-like margin; valleculae each with a single dark vitta, commissure bivittate; stylopodia shortly conical; carpophore deeply bifid. Endosperm depressed-pentagonal, somewhat sulcate below the vittae.
Strongly anise-scented, glabrous and glaucous annual herbs; stems erect, branched, the leaves petiolate, pinnately decompound, the petiole sheathing; in-florescence of terminal and lateral compound umbels, an involucre and involucel usually lacking; flowers yellow, the petals with an inflexed apex, the calyx obsolete; stylopodium conical; the styles short, reflexed, the carpophore parted to the base; fruit flattened dorsally, all ribs narrowly winged, the lateral broader than the dorsal, the vittae solitary in the intervals, 2-4 on the commissure; seed flattened dorsally, its face flat or slightly concave.
Fr oblong or elliptic, dorsally flattened; ribs prominent, the dorsal narrow, the lateral narrowly to evidently winged; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2–4 on the commissure; carpophore bifid to the base; umbels compound, terminal and lateral, overtopping the lvs; rays numerous; bracts and bractlets usually none; sep none; pet yellow; stylopodium conic; strongly scented annuals, the lvs pinnately dissected into numerous filiform segments. 4, Old World.
Fruit elliptical, strongly dorsiventrally compressed, with some development of lateral wings.
Annual herbs with compound pinnate leaves and filiform ultimate segments.
Sepals absent, petals yellow, with strongly incurved apices.
Umbels compound, bracts and bracteoles obsolete.
Vittae solitary in the furrows.
