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Apium
Sign in to saveApium is a genus, as currently circumscribed by Plants of the World Online, of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, with an unusual highly disjunct distribution with one species in the temperate Northern Hemisphere in the Western Palaearctic (Europe, western Asia, north Africa), and the rest in the temperate Southern Hemisphere in southern Africa, southern South America, Australia, and New Zealand. They are prostrate to medium-tall annual, biennial or perennial herbs growing up to 1 m high in wet soil, often marshes and salt marshes, and have pinnate to bipinnate leaves and s
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Apium is a genus of plants within the family Apiaceae. It belongs to the order Apiales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta. The genus was described by Linnaeus in 1753 and is currently accepted in taxonomic records. Its type species is Apium graveolens. Common names for the genus include celery, marshworts, Moerasscherm, 芹属, and zelena.
The parent taxon of Apium is Apieae. The genus is associated with brackish habitats. Specimen records exist in institutions such as IBUNAM, FCN-UAQ, NY, OBI, and BDI. These records originate from Mexico, Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Algeria. The genus has been described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Species
marshworts
Genus
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyApiaceae
Sellerie (Apium) ist eine Pflanzengattung innerhalb der Familie der Doldenblütler (Apiaceae). Die 17 bis 30 Arten sind hauptsächlich in den gemäßigten Gebieten der Nordhalbkugel verbreitet. Insbesondere der Echte Sellerie (Apium graveolens), meist einfach Sellerie genannt, findet als Nutz- und Heilpflanze Verwendung.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 385
- With media
- 212
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, FCN-UAQ, NY, OBI, BDI, UT
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Algeria, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Argentina
Research
949 papers- Effect of celery (Apium graveolens) seed extract on hypertension: A randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over, clinical trial.Phytotherapy research : PTR · 2022
- Neurological Applications of Celery (Apium graveolens): A Scoping Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
- Beneficial effects of celery (Apium graveolens) on metabolic syndrome: A review of the existing evidences.Phytotherapy research : PTR · 2019
- The effect of celery (Apium graveolens L.) on fertility: A systematic review.Journal of complementary & integrative medicine · 2017
- A Review of the Antioxidant Activity of Celery ( Apium graveolens L).Journal of evidence-based complementary & alternative medicine · 2017
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Species
- Former species
- Ecology
- References
Apium is a genus, as currently circumscribed by Plants of the World Online, of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, with an unusual highly disjunct distribution with one species in the temperate Northern Hemisphere in the Western Palaearctic (Europe, western Asia, north Africa), and the rest in the temperate Southern Hemisphere in southern Africa, southern South America, Australia, and New Zealand. They are prostrate to medium-tall annual, biennial or perennial herbs growing up to 1 m high in wet soil, often marshes and salt marshes, and have pinnate to bipinnate leaves and small white flowers in compound umbels. Some species are edible, notably Apium graveolens, which is the wild ancestor of the commercially important vegetables celery, celeriac and leaf celery.
The genus is the type genus of the family Apiaceae and the order Apiales; the type species of the genus is Apium graveolens.
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