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Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Mexican Hemlock-Parsley, Mexican Hemlockparsley
Description
Genus Conioselinum
Herbs, perennial
. Stem hollow, ribbed
, base
without fibrous
remnant sheaths
. Leaves petiolate
, base sheathing; blade
2-3-pinnatisect or 2-3-ternate-pinnatisect. Umbels compound
, terminal
and lateral
; bracts absent or few; bracteoles numerous
, linear
. Calyx teeth obsolete
. Petals white, ovate
or obovate
, apex incurved
. Stylopodium
low-conic to conic. Fruit oblong
to ovoid
, dorsally
compressed
, glabrous
; dorsal ribs prominent
, lateral ribs broad membranous-winged; vittae 1-3 in each furrow, 2-9 on commissure
. Seed face
plane
or slightly concave
. Carpophore 2-cleft to base.
About 12 species: E Asia, C Europe, North America; three species (one endemic) in China.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Genus:
Conioselinum
()
- G.F. Hoffmann, 1814
- Hemlockparsley
- Specific epithet:
mexicanum
- Coult. & Rose
- Botanical name: - Conioselinum mexicanum Coult. & Rose
- Specific epithet:
mexicanum
- Coult. & Rose
- Genus:
Conioselinum
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Conioselinum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. chinense (Chinese Hemlockparsley) · C. gmelinii (Pacific Hemlockparsley) · C. mexicanum (Mexican Hemlock-Parsley) · C. scopulorum (Rocky Mountain Hemlock-Parsley)
More Info
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Further Reading
- 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 588.
- Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 191, p. 380.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2652764
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-29470
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13744414
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:840641-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 29470
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 840641-1
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDAPI0P030
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: COME2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 32164
Footnotes
- Pan Zehui, Mark F. Watson "Conioselinum". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 155. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
