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Anethum

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Apiaceae Genus: Anethum

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annual herbs.

Stems: Caulescent, branched, glabrous and glaucous.

Roots: Taprooted.

Leaves: Leaves compound (pinnately decompound). Alternate. Blades with filiform ultimate divisions. Sheathing. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in lax, compound umbels, peduncles terminal and lateral. involucre and involucel usually absent. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla of 5 petals; petals yellow, suborbicular, with a narrower inflexed apex. Stamens 5, inserted on an epigynous disk. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules 1 per cells, anatropous; styles 2, usually swollen at base into a stylopodium. Styles short, the stylopodium conical, carpophore 2–parted.

Fruit: Fruit ovate; flattened dorsally; mericarps flattened dorsally; glabrous; ribs 5; the dorsal ones filiform; the lateral ones thin–winged; vittae solitary in the intervals; 2–4 on the commissure. Seeds 1 per mericarp; embryo small; endosperm cartilaginous.

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Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Anethum graveolens L.

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


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Notes

  • Anise-scented. An Old World genus of several species, one of which is the widely cultivated and occasionally naturalized "dill". Anethom is the ancient Greek name for dill, perhaps derived from aitho, to burn, referring to the pungent seeds.
  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 263 (1753)

Other References

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., & Sohmer, S. H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Vols. 1 and 2 (No. Edn 2). University of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum Press.

Occurrences

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