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Seseli
Sign in to saveSeseli is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Apiaceae. They are sometimes woody at base with a conic taproot. Leaf blades are 1–3-pinnate or pinnately decompound. Umbels are compound, with bracts few or absent. Petals are white or yellow, and the fruit ovoid or ellipsoid.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyApiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 354
- With media
- 329
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Collections
- GEO, NY
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Italy, Germany, Austria, Romania, France, Czechoslovakia (Former), Hungary
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- Seseli
- taxon name
- Seseli
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- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Seseli
- taxon common name
- 西风芹属
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Seseli is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Apiaceae. They are sometimes woody at base with a conic taproot. Leaf blades are 1–3-pinnate or pinnately decompound. Umbels are compound, with bracts few or absent. Petals are white or yellow, and the fruit ovoid or ellipsoid.
There are about 140 species in the genus.
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