Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 256 (1753).

Derivation: Greco-Latin name of this or some closely allied plant.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Slender erect annual herbs with slender tap-roots; stem branched; leaves petiolate, 2- or 3-pinnate; ultimate segments short, linear.

Umbels compound (rarely simple), pedunculate, terminal and axillary; involucral bract foliaceous or absent; rays few, rarely only 1, spreading-ascending; bracteoles of the involucel several, entire, toothed, lobed or dissected; pedicels slender or absent; sepals absent; petals white, oblong to obovate, with a narrower inflexed or incurred apex, in the outer flowers often very unequal and radiant; stylopodium depressed; styles very short.

Fruit subcylindrical, laterally compressed, with a very long laterally or dorsally compressed beak; carpophore undivided or scarcely 2-fid at the apex; ribs or mericarps prominent, filiform, obtuse; commissure constricted; vittae very small, solitary between the ribs; seed deeply channelled on the inner face.

Distribution:  About 12 species in the Mediterranean region.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available