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Sium nodiflorum

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Name

Identification
Sium nodiflorum L. [family APIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Apium nodiflorum
  • Sium nodiflorum

Flora

Entry for Apium nodiflorum Reichb. f. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 1, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
Apium nodiflorum Reichb. f. [family UMBELLIFERAE], Fl. Germ. Umb. t. 15.
Sium nodiflorum Linn. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Helosciadium nodiflorum Koch [family UMBELLIFERAE], DC. Prod. iv. 104.
Information
Glabrous perennial. Stem creeping or decumbent, hollow, rooting at the lower nodes, long, striate. Leaves on long petioles which are suddenly dilated below the middle and amplexicaul towards base; leaflets oval ovate or ovate-oblong, serrate, 1/2 to 2 in. long. Umbels subsessile or shortly stalked, of 5–10 primary rays 1–1 1/2 in. long, each with numerous slender secondary rays 1/8– 1/4 in. long; involucels with many lanceolate leaves minutely denticulate, and about equalling the secondary rays. Fruit 1/16 in. long.
Range
Widely spread throughout Europe.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! fl. in March and November.

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