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Annual, biennial or perennial herbs; rootstock various, in Africa often ± tuberous. Leaves simple to tripinnate, denticulate to serrulate or coarsely dentate. Umbels compound, usually numerous; involucre absent or of few linear bracts; involucel absent to conspicuous. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous (a central umbel hermaphrodite with 1–2 lateral ♂ below). Calyx obsolete. Petals usually white, sometimes cream, yellow or greenish yellow, incised above with an incurved apical lobule or at least the tip incurved. Fruit ± laterally compressed, rotund-ovoid to oblong, glabrous or pilose, commissure narrow; primary ribs present, filiform, obvious or obscure, usually pale in ripe fruit; vittae (2–)3(–4) in the valleculae, usually black in the ripe fruit; stylopodia very variable in shape, from flat or pulvinate to long-conical; styles short to slender and flexuose; carpophore ± bipartite. Endosperm rounded or obtusely 3-angled dorsally, commissural face flat or angled to the carpophore.
Annual to perennial herbs. Leaves 1-2-pinnate, 1-2-ternate or decompound, rarely undivided and only dentate. Umbels compound; involucres and involucels few or none. Calyx teeth obsolete or small. Petals usually emarginate, often with inflexed tips. Disk continuous with the base of the styles. Fruits ovate or broader than long, laterally flattened, usually constricted at the broad commissure; mericarps terete to subpentagonal, often dorsally flattened, ribs slender, obscurely prominent, inner face flat; ridges with 2-3 vittae. Carpophore entire, 2-fid or 2-partite.
Fr ovate to orbicular, flattened laterally, the ribs 5 per mericarp, prominent and sometimes very narrowly winged; oil-tubes 2–4 in the intervals, 2 or more on the commissure; carpophore bifid at least to the middle; umbels peduncled, compound, terminal and lateral; invol usually none; rays 8–20; sep minute or none; fls white, pink, or purple, the marginal ones sometimes irregular; stylopodium ± conic; perennials with pinnate or decompound lvs. 150, mainly Old World.
Fruit ovoid to oblong, somewhat laterally compressed, with a broad commissure. Mericarps with 5 filiform ribs; stylopodium conical to depressed-conical; styles short or long, stigmatic surfaces somewhat clubbed.
Umbels compound; bracts and bracteoles 0; calyx teeth obsolete or minute; petals white, cream or sometimes slightly pinkish, apices long-inflexed, the outer ones not noticeably radiate.
Leaves simple, ternate, simply pinnate to finely divided (occasionally showing a wide range of variation within one population).
Seed slightly concave on the commissural face.
Perennial, biennial or annual herbs.
Carpophore deeply 2-cleft.
