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Description
Genus Torilis
Herbs annual
or sometimes perennial
, bristly
, hispid
or appressed
pubescent
throughout. Stem erect
, much branched, ridged
, leafy throughout. Leaf blade
1 2-pinnate or pinnately decompound
; ultimate
segments lanceolate to oblong
, densely toothed
to deeply lobed
, both surfaces strigose
with appressed hairs. Umbels loosely compound
or capitate, terminal
and/or lateral
; bracts few or absent; rays 2 12, spreading-ascending, or umbellules sessile; bracteoles 2 8, linear
or subulate
. Calyx teeth small, triangular to acute-lanceolate. Petals white or purplish red, obovate
, with a narrow inflexed
apex, appressed-strigose on abaxial
surface. Stylopodium
thick, conic; styles short. Fruit round-ovoid or oblong, flattened laterally; primary ribs
filiform
, setulose
, lateral ribs displaced onto the commissural
surface; secondary ribs
hidden by dense, upwardly hooked
spines (Chinese taxa) which occupy the entire interval; vittae 1 under the secondary ribs, 2 on commissure
. Seed flattened dorsally
in cross
section
, face
concave
. Carpophore bifid at apex, cleft
for 1/3 1/2 of its length
.
About 20 species: Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, Pacific Islands (New Zealand) ; two species 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:
Caucalideae
()
- Genus:
Torilis
()
- Adanson, 1763
- Hedgeparsley
- Specific epithet:
recta
- (Hudson) Link subsp. recta Jury
- Botanical name: - Torilis recta (Hudson) Link subsp. recta Jury
- Specific epithet:
recta
- (Hudson) Link subsp. recta Jury
- Genus:
Torilis
(
- Tribe:
Caucalideae
(
- 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 Torilis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
T. arvensis (Canada Hedgeparsley) · T. arvensis arvensis (Hedgeparsley) · T. arvensis purpurea (Hedgeparsley) · T. japonica (Erect Hedgeparsley) · T. leptophylla (Bristlefruit Hedgeparsley) · T. nodosa (Knotted Hedge-Parsley) · T. scabra (Rough Hedgeparsley)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10824710
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16475796
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2158267
Footnotes
- She Menglan (Sheh Meng-lan), Mark F. Watson "Torilis". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 28. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
