Angeliceae (Tribe)

Overview

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A Tribe in the Kingdom Plantae.

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Taxonomy

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The Tribe Angeliceae is a member of the Subfamily Apioideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Angeliceae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
        Infraphylum: Radiatopses Kenrick & Crane, 1997
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Cornidae Frohne & Jensen Ex Reveal, 1994
        Superorder: Aralianae Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Araliales Burnett, 1835
        Family: Apiaceae (ay-pee-AY-see-ee) Lindley, 1836
        Subfamily: Apioideae
        Tribe: Angeliceae

The Tribe Angeliceae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (2): Agasyllis · Angelica
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 220 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Angeliceae.

Genera

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Agasyllis

Agasyllis caucasica is a species of flowering plants of the family and the only species of genus Agasyllis. It is endemic to the Caucasus. [more]

Angelica

Herbs, biennial or perennial. Root often stout, conic or cylindric. Leaves petiolate, petiole sheaths conspicuously inflated; blade 1-4-pinnate or 1-3-ternate-pinnate. Umbels compound, terminal and lateral; bracts many or a few, rarely absent; rays many to several; bracteoles many or a few, entire. Calyx teeth obsolete or ovate-triangular. Petals white, rarely pink or dark purple, ovate to obovate, apex incurved. Stylopodium short-conic. Fruit ovoid to orbicular, dorsally compressed; dorsal ribs filiform, lateral ribs broad- or narrow-winged, separated when mature; vittae often 1-2 in each furrow, 2-4 on commissure. Seed face plane or slightly concave. Carpophore 2-cleft to base.^[1] [more]

At least 307 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Angelica.

More info about the Genus Angelica may be found here.

Footnotes

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Pan Zehui, Mark F. Watson "Angelica". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 158. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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