Melanoselinum Hoffm.
Monocarpic biennials or perennials, usually hairy; stems woody. Lvs 2-3-pinnate; segments broad. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts and bracteoles numerous, entire. Petals white to purplish, ± regular, with apex entire, acuminate, inflexed; calyx teeth small. Fr. oblong to ovoid, flattened dorsally, not beaked, spineless, but often pubescent; commissure broad; ribs 5 per mericarp, the dorsal slender, the lateral with a thin denticulate wing; lateral wings of opposing mericarps not appressed; vittae several in furrows.
7 spp., Madeira. Naturalised sp. 1.
