Interesting Facts
Description
Genus Peucedanum
Herbs perennial
. Rootstock
short, crown usually bearing remnant leaf sheaths
. Stem finely striate
, dichotomously branched above. Leaves petiolate
; petioles
sheathing
. Umbels loosely compound
, terminal
and lateral
; bracts numerous
or absent; rays numerous or few; bracteoles numerous, rarely few or absent. Calyx teeth short or obsolete
. Petals usually white, occasionally pinkish or purplish, rarely pale
yellow, orbicular
to obovate
, with a narrow inflexed
apex. Stylopodium
low-conic. Fruit ellipsoid
, oblong
to suborbicular
, dorsally
compressed
; dorsal ribs filiform
, slightly prominent
, lateral ribs thickened and narrowly winged
, wings
closely appressed
to one another; vittae 1 to several in each furrow, 2 to several on commissure
. Seed face
plane
or slightly concave
. Carpophore bipartite
.
Between 100 and 200 species: Africa, Asia, Europe; 40 species (33 endemic) in China.
The taxonomy of this widespread, heterogeneous
genus has long been problematic. The broad circumscription of Peucedanum adopted here includes some 100120 species from many parts of the Old World that are weakly united
by basic (especially external) fruit structure. These fruit characters are undoubtedly the result of several lines
of convergent evolution, and some authors
prefer to recognize several segregate
genera and reduce Peucedanum to only 810 Eurasian species based around the nomenclatural type, P. officinale Linnaeus.[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:
Peucedaneae
()
- Genus:
Peucedanum
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Western Rosinweed
- Specific epithet:
hakuunense
- Nakai
- Botanical name: - Peucedanum hakuunense Nakai
- Specific epithet:
hakuunense
- Nakai
- Genus:
Peucedanum
(
- Tribe:
Peucedaneae
(
- Subfamily:
Apioideae
(
- Family:
Umbelliferae
(
- Order:
Apiales
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Peucedanum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
P. franchetii (Peucedanum) · P. officinale (Hog's Fennel) · P. ostruthium (Masterwort) · P. palustre (Hog's Fennel) · P. pastinaca (Wild Parship) · P. praeruptorum var. grande (Peucedanum) · P. sandwicense (Makou) · P. sativum (Wild Parship)
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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
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10505753
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15016200
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:846127-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2503113
Footnotes
- Sheh Meng-lan, Mark F. Watson "Peucedanum". in Flora of China Vol 14 Page 182. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
