Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pimpinella anisum L. Sp. PL 264. 1753
Apium Anisum Crantz. Class. Umbell. 101. 1767.
Anisum vulgare Gaertn. Fruct. 1: 102. 1788.
Anisum officinarum Moench. Meth. 100. 1794.
Sison Anisum Spreng. Ges. Natur. Freunde Berlin Mag. 6: 260. 1814.
Tragium Anisum Link, Enum. 1: 2S5. 1821.
Carum Anisum Baillon, Hist. PI. 7: 119, 178. 1879.
Pimpinele anisa St. Lag. Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 131. 1880.
Selinum Anisum E. H. L. Krause in Sturm, Fl. Deuts. ed. 2. 12: 56. 1904.
Annual, puberulent to pubescent, 15-75 cm. high; basal leaves ovate or cordate in general outline, excluding the petioles 2-4 cm. long, simple, serrate to incised; petioles exceeding the blades; lower cauline leaves 3-lobed or ternate, the upper ternately or pinnately divided, the uppermost with linear divisions; involucre wanting, or of a solitary bract; involucel wanting, or of a few filiform bractlets; rays 7-20, up to 4 cm. long; pedicels much exceeding the fruit; calyx-teeth obsolete; petals equal; carpophore 2-cleft nearly to the middle; fruit ovoid-oblong, 3-5 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. broad, puberulent, compressed laterally, the ribs about equally prominent, unwinged; oil-tubes 4-8 in the intervals, 2-4 on the commissure; seed-face concave.
Type locality: "In Aegypto," collector unknown.
Distribution: Mediterranean Region; adventive in Massachusetts; Yucatan,
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
