Ridolfia segetum
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Ridolfia segetum , also called field fennel or "false fennel", is the only plant species of the genus Ridolfia within the umbelliferous family(Apiaceae). It iswidespreadin the Mediterranean .
description
Ridolfia segetum grows as an annual herbaceous plant and reaches heights of up to 100 centimeters. Your taproot exudes a fennel-like odor. Its upright, branched, light green stem is hairless. The hairy, green leaf is pinnate several times with very fine, thread-like leaf sections.
The flowers stand together in an umbel . The umbel has 10 to 60 beams. A shell is not formed. The flowers are yellow.
The brownish or pale yellow achenes are elongated to ovoid with a length of 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters. The yellow seeds are ovate with a length of 2 to 4 millimeters. The two green, bare cotyledons ( cotyledons ) are 28 millimeters long.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 22 + 0-2B.
Occurrence
Ridolfia segetum occurs in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Spain, the Balearic Islands, Portugal, France, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Crete, in the Aegean Sea, in Turkey, in Cyprus, Syria , Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Sinai . It grows on roadsides and as field weeds .
ingredients
The seeds and leaves contain an essential oil with a high proportion of monoterpenic hydrocarbons, especially α- phellandrene , which smells strongly fennel-like.
Taxonomy and name explanation
The first publication of this species was in 1771 under the name Anethum segetum by Carl von Linné in Mantissa Plantarum , p. 219. In 1841 Giuseppe Giacinto Moris put in Enumeratio seminum Horti Regii Botanici Taurinensis , 43 the genus Ridolfia with the type species Ridolfia segetum ; he also published it in Flora Sardoa ... Taurini , 2, 1842, p. 212, plate 75. The generic name honors Cosimo (Pietro Gaetano Gregorio Melchiorre) Ridolfi (1794-1865), an Italian nobleman, agronomist and politician.
use
In Sicily, Ridolfia segetum is used raw in salads.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ridolfia segetum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- ^ Ridolfia segetum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ R. Hand (2011): Apiaceae. - In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Data sheet Ridolfia
- ↑ a b C. Cabral, J. Poças, MJ Gonçalves, C. Cavaleiro, MT Cruz, L. Salgueiro: Ridolfia segetum (L.) Moris (Apiaceae) from Portugal: A source of safe antioxidant and anti-inflammatory essential oil. In: Industrial Crops and Products. 65, 2015, pp. 56-61, doi : 10.1016 / j.indcrop.2014.11.041 .
- ^ Ridolfia segetum at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 . doi : 10.3372 / epolist2016 .
- ↑ Francesca Lentini, Francesca Venza: Wild food plants of popular use in Sicily. In: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3, 2007, p. 15. doi : 10.1186 / 1746-4269-3-15 online.