Petroselinum
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Parsley ( Petroselinum crispum ) |
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Petroselinum is a genus of plants inthe umbelliferae family (Apiaceae). Only two types are common in Europe. One species, parsley , is a medicinal and aromatic plant and iscultivated and naturalizedas a well-known culinary herb mainly in temperate latitudes worldwide.
description
Appearance and leaves
The Petroselinum species rarely grow as annual or usually as biennial , herbaceous plants with maximum heights between 75 centimeters and 100 centimeters. The roots are narrowly conical. All parts of the plant are bare . The strong, stem -round stems are erect and branch in the upper area in an ascending or spreading manner.
The change-constant on the stems arranged leaves are stalked. The leaf blades , triangular in outline, are one to three pinnate . The uppermost section is egg-shaped to linear with a serrated or lobed edge.
Inflorescences and flowers
The flowers are in a terminal or lateral, loosely assembled, multi-rayed, double-gold inflorescence . There may be a few bracts. There are some leaflets present. The hermaphroditic flowers are radial symmetry and five-fold with a double flower envelope . There are five tiny or no sepals . The five white or yellowish, yellow or yellowish-green petals are obovate with a marginal, narrow, inwardly curved upper end. The stylopodium is low conical. The short stylus is spread out.
fruit
The more or less broad ovoid or ovoid-elongated, laterally slightly flattened, two-part fissure fruits , also called double achenes, are 2 to 4 millimeters in size and have five distinct, raised, thin main ribs and individually arranged oil ducts.
Systematics and distribution
The first publication of the generic name Petroselinum (from the Greek petroselinon : Felseppich, Felsensilge, Steineppich, parsley) took place in 1756 by John Hill in The British Herbal , S. 424. Type species is Petroselinum crispum foot (Mill.) .
The genus Petroselinum Hill contains about two species that are originally native to southern and western Europe:
- Parsley ( Petroselinum crispum ) ( (Mill.) Feet ): With triple pinnate leaves, yellowish flowers and growing wild in southern Europe and on the Canary Islands, also widely cultivated and naturalized.
- Petroselinum segetum ( L. ) WDJKoch : With simple pinnate leaves, white flowers and with distribution in western and southern Europe.
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literature
- TG Tutin: Flora Europaea . Rosaceae to Umbelliferae. Ed .: TG Tutin et al. 1st edition. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-15367-6 , CXXIX Umbelliferae, pp. 352 (genus Petroselinum Hill in soft-bound edition).
- She Menglan (佘孟兰) & Mark F. Watson: Petroselinum in der Flora of China , Volume 14, p. 76: Online. (Section Description and Distribution)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j She Menglan (佘孟兰) & Mark F. Watson: Petroselinum in der Flora of China , Volume 14, p. 76: Online.
- ↑ a b c d TG Tutin: Flora Europaea . Rosaceae to Umbelliferae. Ed .: TG Tutin et al. 1st edition. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-15367-6 , CXXIX Umbelliferae, pp. 352 (genus Petroselinum Hill in soft-bound edition).
- ^ A b c C. Stace, R. van der Meijden & I. de Kort: genus Petroselinum (Parsleys) . (No longer available online.) In: Interactive Flora of NW Europe. World Biodiversity Database project, archived from the original on December 19, 2015 ; accessed on August 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. Birkhäuser, Basel / Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-7643-0755-2 , pp. 286, 336.
- ^ Petroselinum at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
