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A Apiaceae or even Umbelliferae (two list come allowed per ICBN) are the personal of commonly redolent plants with hollow stems, including parsley, carrot, and more relatives. These are the big personal using astir 300 genera and more than 3,000 species. A earliest title Umbelliferae derives from either a inflorescence being in the form of a compound "umbel".

A little flowers come centrosymmetric sustaining Quintuplet little sepals, 5 petals and Pentad stamens.

A personal contains a select few extremely toxic plants, such as hemlock, which was used to execute Socrates and also utilized to poison arrow tips. It besides contains a few extremely utile plants, like carrots, parsley, caraway, and fennel. Numerous plants therein personal, like wild carrot have estrogenic properties, and keep close at hand been utilized when folk medicine for birth control. Virtually all notable for this have is the out jumbo fennel, silphium.

Notable members include: Anethum graveolens - Dill Anthriscus cerefolium - Chervil Angelica spp. - Angelica Apium graveolens - Celery Carum carvi - Caraway Centella asiatica - Gotu kola Conium maculatum - Poison hemlock Coriandrum sativum - Coriander Cuminum cyminum - Cumin Daucus carota - Carrot Eryngium spp. - Sea holly Foeniculum vulgare - Fennel Myrrhis odorata - Cicely Pastinaca sativa - Parsnip Petroselinum crispum - Parsley Pimpinella anisum - Anise Levisticum officinale - Lovage

Genera
Aciphylla Actinotus Aegopodium Aethusa Aletes Ammi Ammoselinum Anethum Angelica Anthriscus Apiastrum Apium Arracacia Astrantia Athamantha Azorella Berula Bifora Bolax Bowlesia Bunium Bupleurum Carum Caucalis Centella Chaerophyllum Ciclospermum Cicuta Cnidium Coelopleurum Conioselinum Conium Conopodium Coriandrum Crithmum Cryptotaenia Cuminum Cyclospermum Cymopterus Cynosciadium Daucosma Daucus carrot Dorema Erigenia Eryngium Eurytaenia Falcaria Ferula Foeniculum Glehnia Harbouria Heracleum Hydrocotyle (is now classified under Araliaceae) Laser Laserpitium Levisticum Ligusticum Lilaeopsis Limnosciadium Lomatium Meum Monizia Musineon Myrrhis Neoparrya Oenanthe Oreomyrrhis Oreonana Oreoxis Orogenia Osmorhiza Oxypolis Pastinaca Perideridia Petroselinum Peucedanum Pimpinella Pleurospermum Podistera Polytaenia Prangos Pseudocymopterus Pteryxia Ptilimnium Sanicula Scandix Selinum Seseli Shoshonea Silaum Sison Sium Smyrnium Spermolepis Sphenosciadium Sympholoma Synelcosciadium Taenidia Tauschia Thapsia Thaspium Tilingia Tordylium Torilis Trachymene Trachyspermum Trepocarpus Turgenia Yabea Zizia

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The Apiaceae
mostly temperate herbs almost always with...

Umbellifer Internet Resource Centre
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Description of Apiaceae
Habit and leaf form; Anatomy; Morphology; Physiology; Biochemistry; Geography.






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