Anthriscus

Pers.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves bipinnate, tripinnate or sometimes 4-pinnate, fern-like; segments lanceolate to acuminate, toothed, glabrous or somewhat hairy. Flowers in sparse, terminal, compound umbels; involucres small or usually absent. Calyx 0. Petals notched, white. Fruit narrowly oblong, slightly 3-angled dorsally, glabrous and shiny at maturity. Seeds semiterete and grooved on face. x = 8 (7, 9).
Distribution: 
Species 10-12, Europe, Asia and Africa; 1 supposedly naturalised in sthn Afr.: *Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoffm. var. sylvestris, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho and Eastern Cape.
Classification: 
APIACEAE

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