Molopospermum

Molopospermum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. The single species, Molopospermum peleponnesiacum, Spanish: cuscullo, French couscouil and Rousillonais Catalan coscoll is native to the mountains of Spain, southern France and Italy (notably the Pyrenees and the Alps) and is edible, being used in ways similar to its better-known fellow umbellifers celery and angelica and also believed to have tonic properties.

==Taxonomy== The genus name is a combination of the Greek elements μώλωψ, genitive μώλωπος (môlôps, môlôpos) "bruise" and σπέρμα (sperma) "seed" yielding the meaning of "bruised-seed" - in reference not, as might be assumed, to the fruits being used to treat bruises, but to the long, deep grooves in the fruits resembling bruises - i.e. dents or furrows. The specific name peleponnesiacum is likewise misleading, appearing to suggest that the plant hails from the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece, which is not the case: the geographical epithet 'peleponnesiacum' was applied to the plant in error by the founding father of modern botany Linnaeus, who mistakenly believed the plant to be native to Greece. Linnaeus's error was noted by both Lamarck and de Candolle, who were unable to find the plant in Greece, but, despite the condemnation of these and subsequent botanists, the name has stuck, never having been replaced by a more appropriate one.