Family: Apiaceae
Oreomyrrhis
Citation:
Endl., Gen. Pl. 9:787 (1839).
Derivation: Greek oros, oreos, mountain; myrrhis, the fragrant European herb known botanically as Myrrhis odorata, and in England as sweet ciceley or myrrh.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Tufted perennial herbs, often of montane habitats, mostly with a basal leaf-rosette; leaves pinnatisect, rarely reduced to narrow phyllodes.
Umbels simple, pedunculate; involucral bracts connate at the base, longer than the pedicels; sepals very small to absent; petals entire, with a short inflexed apex, imbricate in bud; stylopodium broad-conical, continuous with the base of the styles.
Fruit ovate to narrow-oblong slightly flattened laterally, grooved at the commissure; carpophore persistent, usually 2-fid; mericarps prominently 5-ribbed; ribs obtuse; vittae 1 to several between the ribs and 2 or more at the commissure.
Distribution:
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About 25 species from Formosa, North Borneo, New Guinea, to New Zealand, Mexico, central America, the Andes, Fuegia and the Falkland Islands; 7 or 8 species in south-east Australia and Tas. (Mathias & Constance (1955) Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 27:347-416.)
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