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Foeniculum

Mill. (1754)

This name is accepted

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

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Herbs.

Stems: Caulescent, branched, glabrous and glaucous.

Roots: Taproots stout.

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

Flowers: Flowers in lax compound umbels. Peduncles terminal and axillary. Involucre and involucel absent. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla of 5 petals; petals 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, the stylopodium conical; carpophore 2–parted.

Fruit: Fruit oblong; compressed laterally; mericarps subterete; glabrous; ribs prominent; acute or obtuse; vittae solitary in the intervals; 2 on the commissure. Seeds 1 per mericarp; embryo small; endosperm cartilaginous. seed face plane or slightly concave.

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Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Foeniculum vulgare Mill.

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Anise-scented perennial or biennial. An Old World genus, one of which has become widely established in the Western Hemisphere. Foeniculum is the Latin name for fennel.
  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada

Bibliography

Name Published In: Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4: s.p. (1754)

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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