- 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, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya
Introduced into:
Czechoslovakia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Palestine, Turkey
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 papillare (Boiss.) 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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