Roots fibrous. Leaves compound, petiolate, pinnate; leaflets serrate. Bracts and bractlets present. Flowers white. Fruit ovoid to orbicular, sub-didymous; ridges filiform; pericarp corky; furrows many vittate. Inner seed face plane. Stylopodium conical.

A genus of 3 species, widely distributed in all the continents, which grow in wet places.

Lower Taxon

• Berula erecta (Huds.) Cov.

Related Synonym(s):

• Berula angustifolia (Linn.) Mert. & Koch = Berula erecta (Huds.) Cov.
• Sium angustifolium Linn. = Berula erecta (Huds.) Cov.
• Sium erectum Huds. = Berula erecta (Huds.) Cov.