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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-TZJK90610Z"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-TZJK90610Z'); </script><title>Flora of Zimbabwe: Family page: Apiaceae</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="description" content="A web site containing information about the Flora of Zimbabwe"> <meta name="author" content="Mark Hyde"> <script src="../common.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/zim.css"> <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="../favicons/zim-icon.png"> </head> <body> <div id="Header">Flora of Zimbabwe</div> <div class="indent"> <table class="navigation" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" summary="Navigation"> <tr><td><a href="../index.php">Home</a></td><td>></td><td><a href="index.php">List of families</a></td><td>></td><td>Apiaceae</td></tr> </table> Spermatophyta: Dicotyledonae: Archichlamydeae: Apiales <h1>Apiaceae - Carrot family</h1> Umbelliferae Cannon, J.F.M. (1978) Apiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 <h2>Description of the family</h2> <table class="keytable2" width="95%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10" summary="Description of the family"> <tr> <td class="backcolor">Herbs, rarely shrubs or small trees (<a href="genus.php?genus_id=1041">Heteromorpha</a> and <a href="genus.php?genus_id=1051">Steganotaenia</a>). Stipules 0. Leaves alternate, usually compound, occasionally simple. Flowers arranged in simple or more usually compound umbels, rarely whorled or capitate. In compound umbels, the scales at the base of the primary branches (rays) are called bracts while those at the base of the branches of the secondary (or partial) umbels (referred to as pedicels) are called bracteoles. Petals 5, usually white, but sometimes yellowish, greenish, pinkish or rarely blue. Stamens 5. Styles 2, usually divergent, usually with a well-developed stylopodium. Ovary inferior, 2-locular. Fruit dry, consisting of two indehiscent carpels separated by a commissure; carpels adnate or suspended from an axis (carpophore) usually separating when ripe, usually prominently 5- or 9-ribbed.Worldwide: 446 genera and 3,540 species, cosmopolitan, but occurring particularly in northern temperate areas and on mountains in the tropics.Zimbabwe: 21 genera and 44 taxa.</td> <td class="wid15"> <a href="image-display.php?species_id=143250&image_id=1" title="Diplolophium buchananii subsp. swynnertonii"><img src="images/14/143250-1-t.jpg" alt="Diplolophium buchananii subsp. swynnertonii"></a> </td> </tr> </table> <h2>Links to genera:     View: <a href="utilities/utility-display-living-images-by-family.php?family_id=14">living plant images</a> - <a href="utilities/utility-display-herb-images-by-family.php?family_id=14">herbarium specimen images</a> - <a href="utilities/utility-display-all-images-by-family.php?family_id=14">all images</a> for this family</h2> <table class="keytable2" width="95%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" summary="Links to genera"> <tr><td class="backcolor wid35">Genus</td><td class="backcolor">Content</td></tr> <tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1044">Afrocarum</a> Rauschert</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=2043">Afroligusticum</a> C. Norman</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=2044">Afrosciadium</a> P.J.D. Winter</td><td class="cont"></td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1038">Agrocharis</a> Hochst.</td><td class="cont">Description</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1036">Alepidea</a> F. Delaroche</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1042">Apium</a> L.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1047">Berula</a> Besser & W.D.J. Koch</td><td class="cont">Description</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1034">Centella</a> L.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1040">Conium</a> L.</td><td class="cont">Description</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1039">Coriandrum</a> L.</td><td class="cont">Description</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1043">Deverra</a> DC.</td><td class="cont">Description</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1048">Diplolophium</a> Turcz.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1049">Foeniculum</a> Mill.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1041">Heteromorpha</a> Cham. & Schltdl.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1033">Hydrocotyle</a> L.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1052">Lefebvrea</a> A.Rich.</td><td class="cont">Description</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1045">Pimpinella</a> L.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1035">Sanicula</a> L.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1046">Sium</a> L.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1051">Steganotaenia</a> Hochst.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr><tr><td class="wid35"><a href="genus.php?genus_id=1037">Torilis</a> Adans.</td><td class="cont">Description, Image</td></tr></table><h2>Other sources of information about Apiaceae:</h2><h3>Our websites:</h3>Flora of Botswana: <a href="https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=14" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank">Apiaceae</a> Flora of Burundi: <a href="https://www.burundiflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=14" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank">Apiaceae</a> Flora of Caprivi: <a href="https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=14" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank">Apiaceae</a> Flora of Malawi: <a href="https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=14" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank"> Apiaceae</a> Flora of Mozambique: <a href="https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=14" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank">Apiaceae</a> Flora of Rwanda: <a href="https://www.rwandaflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=14" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank">Apiaceae</a> Flora of Zambia: <a href="https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=14" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank">Apiaceae</a> Flora of Zimbabwe: <a href="https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/family.php?family_id=14" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank">cultivated Apiaceae</a> <h3>External websites:</h3>African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): <a href="http://www.africanplants.senckenberg.de/search.php?q=Apiaceae" title="Link opens in new tab" target="_blank">Apiaceae</a> BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=Apiaceae&stype=C#/titles" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): <a href="https://www.eol.org/search?q=Apiaceae" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): <a href="https://www.gbif.org/species/search?q=Apiaceae" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> Google: <a href="https://www.google.co.zw/search?hl=en&q=Apiaceae" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Web</a> - <a href="https://www.google.co.zw/images?hl=en&q=Apiaceae&tbm=isch" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Images</a> - <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Apiaceae&hl=en" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Scholar</a> iNaturalist: <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/search?q=Apiaceae" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> IPNI (International Plant Names Index): <a href="http://www.ipni.org/?q=Apiaceae" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> JSTOR Plant Science: <a href="https://plants.jstor.org/action/doSearch?searchText=Apiaceae&submit=Rechercher&sa=api" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: <a href="http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/apex/f?p=185:145:0::NO::P3_BOTNAME:Apiaceae" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> Plants of the World Online: <a href="http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/?q=Apiaceae" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> Tropicos: <a href="http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Apiaceae&exact=true" target="_blank" title="Link opens in new tab">Apiaceae</a> <table class="navigation" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" summary="Navigation"> <tr><td><a href="../index.php">Home</a></td><td>></td><td><a href="index.php">List of families</a></td><td>></td><td>Apiaceae</td></tr> </table>  </div> <hr> <div class="tiny">Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-25 Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. 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