Ammi L.
Annual or biennial herbs, usually glabrous. Lvs 1-3-pinnate or ternate; segments narrow. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts several, long, simple or pinnate; bracteoles numerous. Petals white or yellowish, irregular, with apex deeply notched and inflexed; calyx teeth small or 0. Fr. ovoid or ovoid-oblong, slightly flattened laterally, not beaked, spineless; commissure narrow; ribs 5 per mericarp, equal, slender; vittae solitary in furrows.
10 spp., Macaronesia, Mediterranean to temperate Asia. Naturalised sp. 1.
