Family: Apiaceae
Daucus
Citation:
L. Sp. Pl. 242 (1753).
Derivation: Greco-Latin daucus, a name probably applied to several umbelliferous plants.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Annual or biennial hispid herbs; leaves 2- or 3-pinnate.
Umbels terminal, compound; involucral bracts absent or several, entire, or usually pinnatisect; sepals small or absent; petals white, yellowish or purplish, obovate, emarginate, 2-lobed, with an inflexed apex, the outer often radiate.
Fruit oblong-ovoid, cylindrical or dorsally slightly compressed, usually spinous and enveloping the stylopodium and styles with spines; mericarps with 5 filiform ciliate primary ribs and 4 stouter secondary ribs with a single row of spines; vittae 1 under the secondary ribs.
Distribution:
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Almost cosmopolitan genus with about 50-60 species; in Australia 1 species escaped from cultivation and 1 very variable species native. (Thellung (1926) Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 23:147-159; Thellung & Hegi in Hegi (1926) Ill. Fl. Mitt.-Eur. 5, 2:1501-1526.)
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Biology:
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Key to Species:
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1. Umbel rays many, spreading, bearing many-flowered umbellules which form a flat-topped compound umbel when flowering, bending inwards when fruiting |
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D. carota 1. |
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1. Umbel rays 2-5, remaining erect, unequal, bearing 2-6-flowered umbellules which form an irregular umbel |
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D. glochidiatus 2. |
Author:
Not yet available
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