Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoffm.

Umbelliferae, C.C. Townsend. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1989

Morphology General Habit: Erect, strong-growing perennial, 0.6–1.5(–l.8) m., with a ± incrassate, subtuberous rootstock propagating by offsets.
Morphology Stem: Stem fistular, striate to sulcate, glabrous throughout or ± pubescent below, shrinking below the nodes when dry, much-branched with branches alternate or several arising from the same point.
Morphology Leaves: Leaves 2–3 to sub-4-pinnate, delicate and fern-like; lower leaves deltoid in outline, the lamina ± 6–30 × 5–25 cm., with toothed, lanceolate to ovate, acute to rather blunt segments 1–4 mm. wide, furnished with white substrigose hairs on the venation (especially beneath) to subglabrous; lamina with a long, acuminate, pinnatipartite apex and pointed apical segment or blunter with the apical segment trifid; sheaths ± 2–4.5 cm., oblong, striate, glabrous to ciliate or tomentose, broadly membranous-margined, auriculate above; petiole long, ± 7–16 cm., glabrous or it and the rhachis white-pilose especially between the pinnae and pinnules; upper leaves becoming smaller, more shortly petiolate and finally sessile, less divided.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences: Umbels on ± 1.5–6 cm. peduncles; rays (3–)4–12, glabrous, ± 0.5–3.5 cm.; involucre absent or very rarely a single small oblong bract present; partial umbels 5–12-flowered; pedicels 3–8 mm. with a ring of bristles at the top; 2–9 flowers bearing fruit; involucel of mostly 5–6 oblong-obovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, finally deflexed, finely ciliate, pale-margined bracteoles 3–10 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx: Calyx absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla: Outer petals somewhat radiant, 2–3 mm., notched above, inner ± half the length.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits: Fruit narrowly oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, ± 6–9 × 2 mm., with an indistinct grooved beak slightly 3-angled dorsally, glabrous and shining or covered with antrorse, tuberculate-based bristles; stylopodia shortly conical, exceeded by the rather slender ± 1 mm. styles.

[FTEA]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation: Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident

[AERP]

Ghazanfar, S. A. & Edmondson, J. R (Eds). (2014) Flora of Iraq, Volume 5 Part 2: Lythraceae to Campanulaceae.

Morphology General Habit: Erect perennial, 60–100(–150) cm, much-branched from halfway or below
Morphology Stem: Stem stout, fistular, sulcate, either glabrous throughout or, with petioles of lower leaves and lower branches, ± hispid or shortly hairy
Morphology General: Upper parts, including the umbel rays, glabrous (excepting bracteole margins and sometimes fruit)
Morphology Leaves: Leaves all similar, broadly deltoid in outline tripinnate into ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute segments, lower long-petiolate, uppermost sessile on sheaths, all glabrous on upper surface, ± hispid on lower surface on veins and along margins
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Peduncles: Peduncles 2–4(–7) cm
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences: Umbels many, 4–15(–20)-rayed, fertile rays 2.5–4 cm Partial umbels 7–15-flowered, outer flowers distinctly radiate, 4 mm in diameter
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Involucre: Involucre absent
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts: Involucel of ± 5 oblong, 2–6 mm, ciliate bracts
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits: Fruit 6–8 × 2–2.5 mm, broadest near the base and attenuate above, glabrous or furnished with short, stiff, curved, tuberculate-based bristles; beak very short, sulcate, less than 1 mm as a rule, not clearly marked off from the body of fruit; primary ribs only faintly visible above, and in the beak; pedicels with a ring of hairs at tip immediately below the fruit
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Stylopodium: Stylopodia turgidly conical, suddenly attenuate into the persistent, ± 1 mm styles, disk depressed.
Distribution: Almost throughout Europe; also widely distributed in temperate Asia from Turkey through N & NW Iran, Caucasus, Kashmir, Tibet and the Himalayas to Korea, China and Japan; NW, tropical and S Africa; introduced in N America.
Note: Var. sylvestris, with glabrous fruit, occurs throughout most of the range of the species but not in Iraq. In Iraq represented by var. nemorosa

[FIQ]

English: Cow Parsley

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