Flora of New Zealand Series

Glabrous, biennial or perennial herbs, with taproots. Lvs 3-5-pinnate; segments filiform. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts and bracteoles 0. Petals yellow, regular, with entire, obtuse, inflexed apex; calyx teeth 0. Fr. ovoid-oblong, terete, not beaked, spineless; commissure broad; ribs 5 per mericarp, stout, the lateral somewhat broader; vittae solitary in furrows.

c. 5 spp., Europe, Mediterranean. Naturalised sp. 1.