Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Petroselinum Hill

PETROSELINUM A. W. Hill

Annual or biennial herbs, usually glabrous. Lvs 1-3-pinnate or ternate; segments broad. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts and bracteoles several, simple or lobed. Petals yellowish green or white, regular, with apex slightly notched and inflexed; calyx teeth minute. Fr. ovoid, slightly flattened laterally, not beaked, spineless; commissure narrow; ribs 5 per mericarp, equal, slender; vittae solitary in furrows.

5 spp., Europe, Mediterranean, W. Asia. Naturalised sp. 1.

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