Plants perennial. Leaves much dissected, 3-4-pinnate; segments filiform to linear. Bracts and bractlets lacking. Peduncles terminal and lateral. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals yellow. Fruit elliptic to oblong, terete; stylopodium conical; styles very short; fruit ridges distinct; furrows 1-vittate; commissure 2-vittate. Inner seed face plane to slightly concave.

A small genus from the Mediterranean region with a wide distribution.

Lower Taxon

• Foeniculum vulgare Mill.

Related Synonym(s):

• Anethum foeniculum Linn. = Foeniculum vulgare Mill.
• Foeniculum officinale = Foeniculum vulgare Mill.