Interesting Facts
Description
Genus Ferula
Herbs, perennial
, monocarpic
or polycarpic, often onion-(Allium) -scented. Taproot
stout, often woody. Stem branching, alternate, opposite or verticillate
, base
often clothed in fibrous
remnant sheaths
. Leaves petiolate
, base sheathing, usually broadly so; blade
24-pinnate or 24-pinnatisect. Cauline leaves reduced upwards. Inflorescences often polygamous, terminal
umbels compound
, flowers perfect
; lateral
umbels both compound and simple
, flowers bisexual
or staminate
; bracts usually absent; bracteoles present or absent. Calyx teeth obsolete
or minute, triangular (except F. kingdon-wardii). Petals yellow or pale
yellow (rarely greenish-yellow), ovate
or lanceolate-oblong, apex acuminate, inflexed
. Stylopodium
conic, base sometimes dilated
, lobed
. Fruit ellipsoid
or ovate-globose, strongly dorsally
compressed
, glabrous
(rarely sparsely puberulent
) ; dorsal ribs filiform
, usually prominent
, lateral ribs winged
, wings
narrow or broad; vittae 14 in each furrow, 212 on commissure
. Seed face
plane
or slightly concave
. Carpophore 2-cleft to base.
About 150 species: N Africa, C and SW Asia, Mediterranean region; 26 species (seven endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Apiales
()
- Nakai, 1930
- Family:
Umbelliferae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Apioideae
()
- Tribe:
Peucedaneae
()
- Genus:
Ferula
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Ferula
- Specific epithet:
sinaica
- Boiss.
- Botanical name: - Ferula sinaica Boiss.
- Specific epithet:
sinaica
- Boiss.
- Genus:
Ferula
(
- Tribe:
Peucedaneae
(
- Subfamily:
Apioideae
(
- Family:
Umbelliferae
(
- Order:
Apiales
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ferula
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
F. asa-foetida (Asafetida) · F. assa-foetida (Asafetida) · F. communis (Giant Fennel) · F. communis communis (Giant Fennel) · F. gummosa (Galbanum) · F. iliensis (Ilan) · F. kirialovii (Lambutta) · F. kuhistanica (Kamol) · F. narthex (Ferula) · F. tingitana (Giant Tangier Fennel)
More Info
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Further Reading
- A manual flora of Egypt / by Reno Muschler. With a preface by Paul Ascherson and Georg Schweinfurth. Berlin, R. Friedlaender, 1912. url p. 1243, p. 707.
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 December 05, 2007:
- Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10503621
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15009033
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:842499-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 739745
Footnotes
- Sheh Meng-lan, Mark F. Watson "Ferula". in Flora of China Vol 14. Page 174.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
