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Petroselinum

Hill (1756)

This name is accepted

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

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Biennial, slender, erect, herbs.

Stems: Caulescent, branched, glabrous.

Roots: Taprooted.

Leaves: Leaves compound (ternate–pinnately or pinnately decompound). Alternate. Petioles sheathing. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in loose compound umbels. Peduncles terminal and axillary, involucre of a few inconspicuous bracts or absent, involucel of several linear bractlets shorter than the flowers. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla of 5 petals; petals pale yellow or greenish yellow, obovate, 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, spreading, the stylopodium low-conical; carpophore 2–parted to the base or cleft to the middle.

Fruit: Fruit ovoid to oblong; weakly compressed laterally; glabrous; ribs prominent; filiform; vittae solitary in the intervals; 2 on the commissure. Seeds 1 per mericarp; embryo small; endosperm cartilaginous. seed face plane.

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Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) Fuss

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • A Eurasian genus of 3 species, one of which, the cultivated parsely, has become widely naturalized throughout the world. Name derived from the Greek petros, rock, and selinon, parsley or celery.
  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada

Bibliography

Name Published In: Brit. Herb.: 424 (1756)

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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