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Aegopodium Linn., Sp. Pl. 265. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5. 128. 1754; Wolff in Engler, Pflanzenr. 4, 90: 327. 1927; Hiroe, Umb. Asia 1: 73. 1958; Tutin in Tutin et al, Fl. Eur. 2: 333. 1968.

Plants, perennial. Leaves large, ternately compound; leaflets lanceolate to oval; leaf bases sheathing. Bracts and bractlets lacking. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, rarely pinkish, obcordate, apex inflexed. Stylopodium conical, thick; styles slender, reflexed. Fruit ovoid-oblong, glabrous to scaly; ridges thin or not prominent; vittae obscure. Inner seed face plane.

A genus of 7 or 8 European and Asian species.


1 Leaves 2-3-pinnate. Fruit 3-4 mm long, oblong, glabrous   Aegopodium alpestre
+ Leaves pinnate. Fruit 2 mm long, ovoid, scaly   Aegopodium burttii

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