- Family: Apiaceae Lindl.
Trachyspermum Link
This genus is accepted, and is native to Asia-Tropical, Africa and Asia-Temperate..
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Umbelliferae, C.C. Townsend. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1989
- Habit
- Erect annual herbs
- Leaves
- Leaves 2–3-pinnate, with long, narrow segments
- Inflorescences
- Umbels numerous, compound, pedunculate; involucre generally present and of several bracts, occasionally absent or of only a single setaceous bract; involucel present, of several narrow bracteoles
- Flowers
- Flowers all hermaphrodite
- Calyx
- Calyx-teeth absent or very small
- Corolla
- Petals white, with an inflexed lobule, emarginate above
- Fruits
- Fruit papillose, hairy or verruculose, ovate, with no distinct beak, strongly laterally compressed and narrowed to the commissure; primary ribs slender and scarcely prominent to well defined, the mericarps rounded to obscurely 3-angled dorsally; vittae solitary in the valleculae and 2 on the commissure, large and conspicuous; stylopodia conical, disk almost absent, styles slender to very slender; carpophore bifid to the base
- Seeds
- Endosperm rounded to bluntly pentagonal in section, the commissure almost flat.
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Distribution
Native to:
Afghanistan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Somalia, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya
Introduced into:
Czechoslovakia, Kazakhstan, Morocco
Accepted Species
- Trachyspermum ammi (L.) Sprague
- Trachyspermum anethifolium (D.Don) H.Wolff
- Trachyspermum baluchistanicum Nasir
- Trachyspermum clavatum Nasir
- Trachyspermum confusum Hedge, Lamond & Rech.f.
- Trachyspermum falconeri (C.B.Clarke) H.Wolff
- Trachyspermum gedrosiacum (Bornm.) Hedge, Lamond & Rech.f.
- Trachyspermum halophilum Hedge, Lamond & Rech.f.
- Trachyspermum khasianum (C.B.Clarke) H.Wolff
- Trachyspermum microcarpum Hedge, Lamond & Rech.f.
- Trachyspermum paktianum Hedge, Lamond & Rech.f.
- Trachyspermum pimpinelloides (Balf.f.) H.Wolff
- Trachyspermum podlechii (Leute) Hedge, Lamond & Rech.f.
- Trachyspermum roxburghianum H.Wolff
- Trachyspermum scaberulum (Franch.) H.Wolff ex Hand.-Mazz.
- Trachyspermum stewartii (Dunn) Hedge, Lamond & Rech.f.
- Trachyspermum triradiatum H.Wolff
- Trachyspermum villosum (Haines) P.K.Bhattach. & K.Sarkar
Synonyms
Other Data
Trachyspermum Link appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 267 (1821)
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 1: 267 (1821), nom. consenv.
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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