Higher Taxonomy
Common Name: CARROT FAMILY Habit: Annual to perennial herb [shrub, tree], generally from taproot. Stem: generally +- scapose, generally ribbed, hollow. Leaf: basal and generally cauline, generally alternate; stipules generally 0; petiole base generally sheathing stem; blade generally much dissected, occasionally compound. Inflorescence: umbel or head, simple or compound, generally peduncled; bracts present in involucres or 0; bractlets generally present in "involucels". Flower: many, small, generally bisexual (or some staminate), generally radial (or outer bilateral); calyx 0 or lobes 5, small; petals 5, free, generally ovate or spoon-shaped, generally incurved at tips, generally +- ephemeral; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-chambered, generally with a +- conic, persistent projection or platform at tip subtending 2 free styles. Fruit: 2 dry, 1-seeded halves (= mericarps), separating from each other but generally +- persistent to central axis; ribs on halves 5, 2 marginal, 3 to back; oil tubes 1--several per interval between ribs. Genera In Family: 300 genera, 3000 species: +- worldwide, especially temperate; many cultivated for food or spice (e.g., Carum, caraway; Daucus; Petroselinum); Bupleurum lancifolium Hornem. is historical garden weed; some toxic (e.g., Conium). Note: Mature fruit generally critical in identification, shape given in outline. Hydrocotyle moved to Araliaceae, Orogenia moved to Lomatium, Sphenosciadium moved to Angelica. Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) A.W. Hill is a waif. eFlora Treatment Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax, except as noted Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
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Coriandrum
Habit: Annual, taprooted, glabrous. Stem: erect, branched. Leaf: blade oblong to ovate, ternately or pinnately lobed to pinnately dissected. Inflorescence: umbels compound, terminal and lateral; bracts 0; bractlets few, small; rays, pedicels few, spreading-ascending. Flower: marginal flowers bilateral, others radial; calyx lobes prominent, unequal; petals oblong, white or rosy, marginal 2-lobed, tips of all narrowed; styles elongate. Fruit: +- round; halves not separating readily; ribs thread-like, in a hard fruit wall; oil tubes 0; fruit axis divided to base. Seed: face concave. Species In Genus: 1--2 species: Mediterranean, 1 widely cultivated. Etymology: (Greek name for this anciently cultivated condiment) Jepson eFlora Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax Jepson Online Interchange
Previous taxon: Conium maculatumNext taxon: Coriandrum sativum
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Citation for this treatment: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax 2012, Coriandrum, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=10178, accessed on December 06, 2019.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2019, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 06, 2019.
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