WorldFloraDB - Petroselinum

Characteristics

Herbs biennial, rarely annual, glabrous. Root narrowly conic. Stem erect, branching above, base without remnant sheaths. Leaf blades triangular, 2–3-pinnate; ultimate segments ovate to linear, toothed or lobed. Umbels loose compound, terminal and axillary; bracts few or absent; bracteoles several. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals yellow or yellowish-green, obovate, apex emarginate, narrow, inflexed. Stylopodium low-conic; styles short, spreading. Fruit ovoid-oblong, slightly flattened laterally, mericarps subrounded in cross section, commissure constricted, glabrous, shiny; ribs 5, filiform, prominent; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Seed face plane. Carpophore 2-cleft to base or to middle.

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Fr broadly ovate, flattened laterally, constricted at the commissure; ribs 5 per mericarp, narrow, prominent; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure; carpophore bifid at least to the middle; umbels long-peduncled, terminal and lateral; invol none or of 1–3 lance-subulate bracts; rays many; umbellets many-fld; bractlets 4–6, shorter than the pedicels; sep none; pet yellow or greenish-white; stylopodium low-conic; taprooted biennials with pinnately or ternate-pinnately decompound lvs. 5, Eur., Medit.

Annual or biennial herbs, usually glabrous. Lvs 1-3-pinnate or ternate; segments broad. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts and bracteoles several, simple or lobed. Petals yellowish green or white, regular, with apex slightly notched and inflexed; calyx teeth minute. Fr. ovoid, slightly flattened laterally, not beaked, spineless; commissure narrow; ribs 5 per mericarp, equal, slender; vittae solitary in furrows.

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