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Cryptotaenia

DC. (1829)

This name is accepted

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

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Slender, erect herb.

Stems: Caulescent, branched, glabrous.

Roots: Slender fascicled.

Leaves: Leaves compound (ternate). Alternate. Leaflets broad. Margins toothed or lobed. Petioles sheathing. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers, usually paniculate, in loose, irregularly compound umbels; peduncles terminal and lateral. involucre absent or of a short, linear bract, involucel absent or of a few minute bractlets. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx teeth absent or minute. Corolla of 5 petals; petals white, 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 erect or reflexed, the stylopodium slender-conical; carpophore 2–parted to base.

Fruit: Fruit linear–oblong; compressed laterally; beaked; glabrous; ribs filiform; conspicuous; vittae 1–4 in the intervals; 2 on the commissure. Seeds 1 per mericarp; embryo small; endosperm cartilaginous. seed face plane.

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Uses and Culture

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Pollinators

Notes

  • A small genus native to eastern North America, Eurasia, and Africa. Name derived from the Greek cryptos, hidden, and taenia, band, in reference to the concealed vittae.
  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada

Bibliography

Name Published In: Coll. Mém. 5: 42 (1829)

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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