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
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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.
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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