e-Key v3 - *Foeniculum
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Apiaceae - Apioideae - *Foeniculum Mill.

Description :

  • Robust, glabrous, slightly glaucous perennial herbs; stem erect, ribbed
  • Leaves 3- or 4-pinnate, with narrowly linear to narrowly acicular segments; base sheathing
  • Flowers in many-rayed, terminal or lateral umbels; involucre absent
  • Calyx obsolete
  • Petals inflexed at apex, bright yellow
  • Disc short, broadly conical
  • Fruit narrowly ovoid, with prominent ridges at maturity; glabrous; oil ducts 6, large
  • Seeds subterete, grooved
  • x = 11 (8, 10, 13)

Nomenclature:

  • *Foeniculum Mill.
    • Miller: [513] (1754)
    • Sonder: 548 (1862)
    • Cannon: 605 (1978)
    • Burtt: 207 (1991)
    • Pimenov & Leonov: 53 (1993)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species 5, Europe, Asia, N Africa
  • Southern Africa : Species 1: * Foeniculum vulgare Mill., Fennel; cultivated and a widespread roadside weed

References:

  • BURTT, B.L. 1991. Umbelliferae of southern Africa: an introduction and annotated checklist. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 48
  • CANNON, J.F.M. 1978. Umbelliferae . Flora zambesiaca 4
  • MILLER, P. 1754. The gardener's dictionary , edn 4. Rivington, London
  • PIMENOV, M.G. & LEONOV, M.V. 1993. The genera of the Umbelliferae . A nomenclator . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • SONDER, W. 1862. Umbelliferae . Flora capensis 2