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Apium Linn., Sp. Pl. 264. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5. 128. 1754; Boiss., Fl. Or. 2: 856. 1872; C.B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 678. 1879; Wolff in Engler, Pflanzenr. 4, 90: 26. 1927; Hiroe, Umb. Asia I: 53. 1958; Tutin in Tutin et al, Fl. Eur. 2: 351. 1968.
Annual or biennial. Leaves petiolate, pinnately divided; pinnae variously lobed. Peduncles short or sometimes lacking. Bracts and bractlets present or lacking. Rays few. Flowers white to greenish white. Calyx teeth minute to obso¬lete. Fruit oval to almost orbicular ,flattened laterally, glabrous; ridges thin; furrows 1-vittate; commissure 2-vittate. Inner seed face plane.
A genus of about 30 species with a wide distribution in both of the hemis¬pheres. The plants frequently grow in moist places.
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Plants c. 1 m tall, perennial or biennial. Leaves pinnate; leaflets ovate to orbicular, usually 3-lobed |
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Apium graveolens |
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Plants 20-50 cm tall, annual. Leaves 3-4 pinnate; leaflets filiform to linear |
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Apium leptophyllum |
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