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Glabrous or hairy, biennial or perennial herbs, with stout or thin taproots. Lvs usually 1-2-pinnate, rarely simple and serrate; segments usually broad. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts and bracteoles 0, or few, entire and often caducous. Petals yellow or whitish red, regular, with apex entire and inflexed; calyx teeth 0. Fr. ellipsoid to globose, strongly flattened dorsally, not beaked, spineless but sometimes hispid; commissure broad; ribs 5 per mericarp, the dorsal slender, the lateral with a thin wing; lateral wings of opposing mericarps appressed; vittae broad, 1-(2) in furrows; dorsal vittae almost as long as fr.
Herbs biennial. Rootstock thick, long-conic. Stem hollow or solid, ribbed. Leaves pinnate, usually glabrous on both surfaces; pinnae serrate or pinnatifid, sessile. Umbels terminal and lateral; bracts and bracteoles absent; rays numerous, ascending. Calyx teeth minute, triangular. Petals ovate, yellow, incurved at apex. Stylopodium short-conic; styles short, divaricate. Fruit broad ellipsoid, glabrous, strongly flattened dorsally; dorsal ribs thinly filiform, the lateral broadly winged; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2–4 on commissure. Seed face plane.
