- Family:
- Apiaceae Lindl.
Pastinaca L.

[FIQ]
Ghazanfar, S. A. & Edmondson, J. R (Eds). (2014) Flora of Iraq, Volume 5 Part 2: Lythraceae to Campanulaceae.
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herbs with pinnate or 2- or 3-pinnately decomposite leaves, segments often (as in Iraqi species) broad and toothed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Umbels compound, polygamous, central umbel hermaphrodite, outer umbels usually hermaphrodite and (inner flowers) male
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Bracts of the involucre few or more, bracteoles several or absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers yellow
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals ovate, slightly emarginate or entire above with an inflexed (often obtuse) acumen
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx obsolete
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit ± round, more rarely elliptical or obovate, strongly dorsally plano-compressed Mericarps with intermediate ribs filiform, slender, laterals thick, closely contiguous, forming a tumid margin to the fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits Vittae
- Vittae solitary in the valleculae, 2 on the commissure
- Disc
- Disk crenulate margined
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Stylopodium
- Stylopodia conical, small or somewhat tumid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Carpophore
- Carpophore bipartite
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds Endosperm
- Endosperm with the commissural face flat.
- Distribution
- Ten species distributed between from the E Mediterranean to Iran and C Asia; only one polymorphic species in Iraq.
Doubtfully present in:
Sicilia
Native to:
Albania, Altay, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Poland, Romania, Sardegna, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, West Siberia, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bolivia, British Columbia, Buryatiya, California, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile South, Colorado, Connecticut, Cuba, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Free State, Haiti, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Kirgizstan, KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Laos, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Marianas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Peru, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon
- Pastinaca argyrophylla Delip.
- Pastinaca armena Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Pastinaca aurantiaca (Albov) Kolak.
- Pastinaca clausii (Ledeb.) Calest.
- Pastinaca erzincanensis Menemen & Kandemir
- Pastinaca gelendostensis (Yild. & B.Selvi) Hand
- Pastinaca glandulosa Boiss. & Hausskn.
- Pastinaca hirsuta Pancic
- Pastinaca kochii Duby
- Pastinaca lucida L.
- Pastinaca pimpinellifolia M.Bieb.
- Pastinaca sativa L.
- Pastinaca trysia Stapf & Wettst.
- Pastinaca yildizii Dirmenci
- Pastinaca zozimoides Fenzl
Pastinaca L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 262 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
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Flora of Iraq
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0