Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 236 (1753).

Derivation: Greek bupleuron, name used by Nikandros for plants possibly belonging to this genus; bous, ox; pleuron, rib.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Glabrous annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs; leaves simple, entire, with parallel nerves, sheathing at the base and usually without a distinct petiole.

Flowers in compound umbels with or without an involucre; sepals absent or indistinct; petals yellow or yellow-green, suborbicular, with an inflexed entire margin; stylopodium low, entire; fruit laterally compressed, ovoid or oblong; carpophore free; mericarps with 5 filiform or narrow-winged ridges; vittae 1-5 between the ridges or absent.

Distribution:  About 150 species, chiefly circumboreal, a few in Africa. 3 or 4 species naturalised in southern Australia. (H. Wolff (1910) Pflanzenr. 43:25, 36-173.)

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