Interesting Facts
Description
Genus Foeniculum
Herbs, annual
or perennial
, all parts strongly aromatic
(anise-scented) . Stem erect
, terete
, gray-green or lurid-green, glabrous
. Leaves petiolate
, sheaths
membranous-margined; blade
pinnately decompound
; ultimate
segments linear
. Umbels compound
, terminal
and lateral
; bracts and bracteoles absent; rays numerous
, upwards-spreading, unequal. Calyx teeth obsolete
. Petals yellow, obovate
, mid rib
conspicuous
, apex with narrowly inflexed
lobule
. Stylopodium
conic; styles very short, reflexed
. Fruit oblong
, terete, glabrous; ribs 5, acute or round-obtuse; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure
. Seed face
plane
or slightly concave
. Carpophore 2-cleft to base
.
One species: Mediterranean region; cultivated and adventive worldwide, including 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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Apiales
()
- Nakai, 1930
- Family:
Umbelliferae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Apioideae
()
- Tribe:
Apieae
()
- Genus:
Foeniculum
()
- P. Miller, 1754
- Fennel
- Specific epithet:
vulgare
- Botanical name: - Foeniculum vulgare 'Wim601571'
- Specific epithet:
vulgare
- Genus:
Foeniculum
(
- Tribe:
Apieae
(
- Subfamily:
Apioideae
(
- Family:
Umbelliferae
(
- Order:
Apiales
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Foeniculum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
F. panmorium (Indian Fennel) · F. vulgare (Bronze Fennel) · F. vulgare Mill. var. dulce (Mill.) Thell. (Sweet Fennel) · F. vulgare Mill. 'Rubrum' (Bronze Fennel) · F. vulgare piperitum (Sweet Fennel) · F. vulgare var. azoricum (Anise) · F. vulgare var. azoricum 'Di Sarno' (Florence Fennel) · F. vulgare var. azoricum 'Orion' (Bulb Fennel) · F. vulgare var. azoricum 'Trieste' (Anise) · F. vulgare var. azoricum 'Zefa Fino' (Anise) · F. vulgare 'Di Firenze' (Bronze Fennel) · F. vulgare 'Purpureum' (Purpureum Bronze Fennel) · F. vulgare 'Sirio' (Bronze Fennel) · F. vulgare 'Smokey' (Bronze Fennel)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4512554
Footnotes
- She Menglan (Sheh Meng-lan), Mark F. Watson "Foeniculum". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 134. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
