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Selinum Linn., Sp. Pl. 244. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5. 115. 1754; C.B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 699. 1879; Hiroe, Umb. Asia 1:153.1958.
Plants perennial. Leaves 1-4-pinnately compound; leaf segments filiform to lanceolate or oval. Involucre of a few linear bracts or lacking. Rays few to nume¬rous, conferted. Involucel of a few to many linear or divided bractlets. Calyx teeth prominent to obsolete. Petals white to purplish white. Fruit oval to ovoid, oblong or sub-quadrate, glabrous; ridges prominent to winged, dorsal furrows 1-vittate, lateral 1-2-(3)-vittate; commissure 2-6-vittate. Inner seed face plane to slightly concave.
A genus of about 8 north temperate species.
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Bractlets pinnate. Vittae obscure in fruit. Stem base fibrous |
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Selinum vaginatum |
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Bractlets not pinnate. Vittae evident in fruit. Stem base fibrous or not fibrous |
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Bractlets white margined. Flowers white. Stem base fibrous |
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Bractlets not white margined. Flowers whitish, tinded with purple. Stem base not fibrous |
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Selinum papyraceum |
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Fruit oblong to subquadrate. All ridges broadly winged |
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Selinum candollii |
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Fruit elliptic to broadly oval. Dorsal and intermediate ridges narrowly winged, lateral broadly winged |
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Leaf segments lanceolate to oval |
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Selinum wallichianum |
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Leaf fern-like, segments linear |
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Selinum filicifolium |
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Lower Taxa
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