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| Distribution | A Eurasian genus of 3 species, one of which, the cultivated parsley, has become widely naturalized throughout the world.
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Habit
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Slender, erect, caulescent biennial herbs from taproots; stems branched, glabrous.
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Leaves
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Leaves ternate-pinnately or pinnately decompound, petioles sheathing.
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Flowers
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Flowers in loose compound umbels, peduncles terminal and axillary, involucre of a few inconspicuous bracts or absent, involucel of several linear bractlets shorter than the flowers; calyx teeth absent; petals pale yellow or greenish yellow, obovate, with a narrower inflexed apex; styles short, spreading, the stylopodium low-conical; carpophore 2-parted to the base or cleft to the middle.
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Fruit
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Fruit ovoid to oblong, weakly compressed laterally, glabrous, ribs prominent, filiform, vittae solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure.
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Seeds
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Seed face plane.
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