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Published In: Species Plantarum, Editio Secunda 1: 350–351. 1762. (Sp. Pl. (ed. 2)) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
General/Distribution: A genus of about 8 north temperate species.

 

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Plants perennial. Leaves 1-4-pinnately compound; leaf segments filiform to lanceolate or oval. Involucre of a few linear bracts or lacking. Rays few to nume¬rous, conferted. Involucel of a few to many linear or divided bractlets. Calyx teeth prominent to obsolete. Petals white to purplish white. Fruit oval to ovoid, oblong or sub-quadrate, glabrous; ridges prominent to winged, dorsal furrows 1-vittate, lateral 1-2-(3)-vittate; commissure 2-6-vittate. Inner seed face plane to slightly concave.
 

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1 Bractlets not pinnate. Vittae evident in fruit. Stem base fibrous or not fibrous (2)
+ Bractlets pinnate. Vittae obscure in fruit. Stem base fibrous Selinum vaginatum
2 (1) Bractlets white margined. Flowers white. Stem base fibrous (3)
+ Bractlets not white margined. Flowers whitish, tinded with purple. Stem base not fibrous Selinum papyraceum
3 (2) Fruit oblong to subquadrate. All ridges broadly winged
+ Fruit elliptic to broadly oval. Dorsal and intermediate ridges narrowly winged, lateral broadly winged (4)
4 (3) Leaf fern-like, segments linear
+ Leaf segments lanceolate to oval Selinum wallichianum
 
 
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