Plants 30–75(–100) cm, glabrous, strongly aromatic. Basal leaf blade broadly ovate, 3–4-pinnately dissected; ultimate segments narrow linear, 4–20 × ca. 0.5 mm. Upper leaves smaller and less divided, petioles sheathing throughout. Umbels 5–15 cm across; rays 10–25, 3–5 cm; umbellules 15–25-flowered; pedicels 6–10 mm. Fruit brown, 3–5 × 2–2.5 mm; lateral ribs gray-white, narrowly winged. Fl. May–Aug, fr. Jul–Sep.

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1. Anethum graveolens L., Sp. Pl. 263 (1753). Lectotipo (designado por Jansen, 1981): Europa, Anon. (LINN-371.1). Ilustr.: Mathias et al., Fl. Il. Catarin. Umbelíferas 48, t. 14 (1972). N.v.: Eneldo, anisillo.

Por L. Constance y J. Affolter.

Plantas 40-170 cm, delgadas, con aroma a anís. Hojas 13-35 × 10-12 cm, oblongas a obovadas, pinnado-compuestas, las divisiones finales 4-20 × c. 0.5 mm o menores, filiformes; peciolos 5-6 cm, angostamente envainados. Pedúnculos 7-16 cm; radios (10-)25-50, 3-l0 cm, patente-ascendentes; pedicelos 6-10 mm, subiguales. Frutos 3-5 × 1.5-3 mm, las costillas dorsales filiformes, agudas, las laterales angostamente aladas, amarillas. Cultivada, ocasionalmente escapada en laderas y pastos. Ch ( Calzada 2873, UC); Y (Standley, 1930: 374); B ( Lundell 1898, F); G ( Steyermark 35907, F); H ( Erazo P. 127, MO); N ( Grijalva 3543, MO); CR ( Valerio 138, F); P ( Bro. Maurice 857, MO). 500-4000 m. (Nativa probablemente del SO. de Asia; cultivada y ocasionalmente adventicia en las regiones cálidas del mundo.)

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Anethum graveolens L., Sp. Pl. 1: 263. 1753.

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Annual herb 4-17 dm. tall; leaves oblong to obovate, the blade 13-35 cm. long, 11-20 cm. broad, pinnately decompound, the ultimate divisions filiform, 4-20 mm. long, the petiole 5-6 cm. long; upper cauline leaves greatly reduced; peduncles 7-16 cm. long; rays 10-45, spreading, 3-10 cm. long, the pedicels 20- 50, 6-10 mm. long; fruit ovoid, about 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad.

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"To 15 dm, branched above, glabrous and ± glaucous throughout; lvs ovate in outline, the lower long-petioled, the upper less so and smaller; ultimate lf-segments 5–20 mm; umbels to 15 cm wide; rays mostly 30–40, spreading, subequal; fr 3–5 mm, half as wide; 2n=22. Native of s. Europe, escaped from cult. throughout most of the U.S. and elsewhere. July, Aug."

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Petals ± 0.75 mm., glabrous.

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Fruit elliptic-oblong, strongly dorsally compressed, ± 3–5 × 2–3 mm., the ribs pale, the marginals wider and thicker; stylopodia shortly conical with crenulate margins; styles short, strongly deflexed on and shorter than the stylopodia.

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Fig. 31.

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Lower leaves 3–4-pinnate with 3–7 pairs of pinnae dissected into capillary segments 2–25 × 0.25–0.5 mm., each terminating in a sharp, pale or brownish mucro; largest leaves up to ± 20 cm. long, deltoid; petiole ± 0.5–2 cm.; sheaths triangular to narrowly oblong, finely striate, 1–7 cm., rather broadly membranous-margined, auriculate at the top with blunt to acute membranous auricles; upper leaves rapidly reducing, sessile on the sheaths, often with longer segments, the uppermost rarely reduced to sheaths alone.

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Stem sparingly to considerably branched, wiry, terete, finely striate.

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Umbels numerous, on mostly (1.8–)5–22 cm. peduncles, usually at least some lateral umbels partially ♂; rays 5–40, glabrous, 2–10 cm.; partial umbels 5–30-flowered, on glabrous, 2–8 mm. pedicels.

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Erect, glabrous, annual herb ± 0.2–1 m. tall, with a pleasant aromatic odour recalling parsley; rootstock slender.

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Robust, rather glabrous annual herb up to 75 cm., with a strong characteristic odour.

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Leaves 3–4-pinnate, ultimate segments narrowly linear to filiform.

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Stem terete, with numerous fine grooves.

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Umbels terminal, equalled or exceeded by long peduncled laterals. Rays numerous, up to 4 cm. long; bracts and bracteoles 0. Partial umbels with up to 35 flowers, but those of small plants may have as few as 6.

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Vittae well developed, 1 per interval and 2 in the commissural face.

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Sepals obsolete; petals yellow with an obvious inturned apex.

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Fruit elliptic, strongly dorsiventrally compressed, with a moderately well-developed marginal wing paler in colour than the body of the fruit. Stylopodium lowconical; styles short, clubbed at the apex, divergent and shed before the fruit matures. Dorsal ribs filiform, carpophore 2-cleft to the base.

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