Contains 29 genera and 51 accepted taxa overall.
This family is completely databased for all specimens.
Characteristics
APIACEAE
Dicot
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Classification
APIALES
APIACEAE
Genera
| Genus | Common Name | Taxa Count | Herbarium Specimens | Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammi | AMMI | 2 | ||
| Anethum | DILL | 1 | ||
| Angelica | ANGELICA | 2 | ||
| Apium | CELERY | 1 | ||
| Bowlesia | BOWLESIA | 1 | ||
| Bupleurum | BUPLEURUM | 1 | ||
| Centella | CENTELLA | 1 | ||
| Chaerophyllum | CHERVIL | 2 | ||
| Cicuta | WATER HEMLOCK | 1 | ||
| Coriandrum | CORIANDER | 1 | ||
| Cryptotaenia | HONEWORT | 1 | ||
| Cyclospermum | MARSH PARSLEY | 1 | ||
| Daucus | WILD CARROT | 2 | ||
| Eryngium | ERYNGO | 9 | ||
| Foeniculum | FENNEL | 1 | ||
| Ligusticum | LICORICE-ROOT | 1 | ||
| Lilaeopsis | GRASSWORT | 2 | ||
| Oxypolis | COWBANE | 2 | ||
| Petroselinum | PARSLEY | 1 | ||
| Ptilimnium | MOCK BISHOPWEED | 1 | ||
| Sanicula | BLACKSNAKEROOT | 4 | ||
| Scandix | SCANDIX | 1 | ||
| Sium | WATERPARSNIP | 1 | ||
| Spermolepis | SCALESEED | 2 | ||
| Thaspium | MEADOWPARSNIP | 2 | ||
| Tiedemannia | 2 | |||
| Torilis | HEDGEPARSLEY | 1 | ||
| Trepocarpus | TREPOCARPUS | 1 | ||
| Zizia | ALEXANDERS; ZIZIA | 3 |
Identification Key
1. Flowers in dense involucrate heads
1. Flowers in simple or compound umbels
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2. Leaves all simple
2. Leaves, at least some, compound or deeply dissected and nearly compound
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3. Fruit echinate, tuberculate, or hispid
3. Fruit ribbed, winged, or smooth
1. (Key A) Leaves septate, in shape linear, oblong, or terete
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1. Leaves not septate, in shape, cordate, suborbicular, to reniform
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2. Stoloniferous, creeping herb; leaves flattened
2. Erect herb; leaves terete
3. Leaves sessile, distal ones perfoliate
3. Leave petiolate, not perfoliate
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4. Decumbent, only sparingly rooting at nodes; leaf blade usually conspicuously lobed
4. Stoloniferous and rooting at nearly all nodes; leaf blade not lobed
1. (Key B) Leaves palmately compound or dissected
1. Leaves pinnately compound or dissected
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2. Ovary and fruit 5-10 times longer than wide
2. Ovary and fruit 1-2 times longer than wide
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3. Fruit tuberculate or with hooked bristles
3. Fruit hispid or bristly, not hooked, sometimes curved or barbed
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4. Fruit winged, hispid
4. Fruit not winged, bristly
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5. Involucre of several trifid to pinnatifid bracts
5. Involucre absent or of 1-2 linear bracts
1. (Key C) Fruit 3-5 times longer than wide
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1. Fruit 1-2 times longer than wide
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2. Leaves 3-foliolate
2. Leaves 2- to 3-pinnately compound
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3. Ultimate leaf blade segments oblong-lanceolate, 1.2-4 mm wide; pedicel 1.5-8 mm long; calyx unapparent at magnification; lacking corky ribs
3. Ultimate leaf blade segments linear-lanceolate to filiform, 0.3-0.7 mm wide; pedicel 0-1.3 mm long; calyx evident at magnification; lighter-colored secondary ribs corky
4. Involucel bracts present, conspicuous (subtending the cluster of pedicels)
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4. Involucel bracts absent or scale-like, occasionally with a
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5. Fruit with prominently winged lateral ribs, the other ribs low and blunt
5. Fruit ribs unwinged or the wings subequal
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6. Fruit ribs winged
6. Fruit ribs unwinged
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7. Fruit ribs subequal in width
7. Fruit lateral ribs much wider than dorsal ones
8. Leaf blade segments entire
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8. Leaf blade segments toothed
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9. Inflorescence a sessile or subsessile fascicle of 1-3 simple umbels
9. Inflorescence pedunculate, usually of 5-60 simple umbels
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10. Fruit dorsally flattened, lateral ribs winged; dill
10. Fruit subterete, lateral ribs not winged; fennel
11. Inflorescence a sessile or subsessile fascicle of 1-3 simple umbels; celery
11. Inflorescence pedunculate, usually of 5-60 simple umbels
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12. Corolla yellow, greenish yellow, or purple
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12. Corolla white or greenish white
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13. Central flower or fruit of umbel sessile or subsessile
13. Central flower or fruit of umbel pedicellate
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14. Sepals absent or obsolete under magnification; parsley
14. Sepals evident under magnification
15. Fruit subglobose; coriander, cilantro
15. Fruit compressed or flattened
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16. Fruit ribs winged
16. Fruit ribs rounded
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17. Plant delicate, to 1 m tall
17. Plant robust, >1 m tall