Family: Apiaceae
Oenanthe
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 254 (1753).
Derivation: Greek oinos, wine; anthos, flower; Pliny described the scent of the flower as that of grape-vine.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Glabrous perennial herbs, usually of humid or wet places, some also aquatic; stems erect or decumbent and ascending, stout or slender, often succulent, branched, often rooting at the lower nodes; roots fibrous or tuberous; leaves 1-3 times pinnate or pinnatisect, rarely reduced to a fistular phyllode; petioles sheathing.
Umbels compound, terminal and lateral; involucral bracts many, few or none; rays numerous; involucel of many narrow bracteoles, shorter than the flowers; sepals acute, persistent; petals obovate, with a long inflexed apex, white or pale-pink, the outer usually radiating; styles erect, rigid after flowering; stylopodium conical.
Fruit oblong, ovoid, obconical or globose, terete or very slightly flattened, glabrous; carpophore absent; ribs of mericarps obtuse, almost equal, very corky; vittae solitary between the ribs, 2 at the commissure.
Distribution:
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About 40 species in temperate Eurasia and the mountains of tropical Africa.
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Biology:
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Author:
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