Coriandrum L.
Glabrous annual herbs. Lvs 1-3-pinnate or ternate; segments broad or narrow. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts 0-1, simple; bracteoles few, simple. Petals white or pink, irregular with outer larger and deeply 2-lobed; apex inflexed; calyx teeth evident, unequal, acute. Fr. ovoid or globose, hard, terete, not beaked, spineless; commissure broad; ribs 9 per mericarp, low, somewhat unequal, secondary broader than primary; vittae solitary, inconspicuous in mature fr.
2 spp., Mediterranean. Naturalised sp. 1.
