BGFlora.eu

Fam: Umbelliferae Juss. (Apiaceae) 
Genus:   Anthriscus Pers.
English Name: Chervil

Description:

Annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous plants. Stem erect or ascending, cylindrical, hollow, ribbed or striated, bare or fibrous, sometimes under the swollen knots. Leaves triangular or triangular ovate, 2 - 3 times feather-like divided, naked or fibrous; The base and lower leaves of the stem with long stems; The upper ones are sitting down. The complex shades with 2 - 15 naked or fibrous major rays, in the base without shell. Sun shades in the base with a shell of 5 or less back ovoid, ovate lance to linear lance, sharp, on the edge of the grooves, usually bracts directed downwards. The polygamous blossoms - bifurcated and with stamens: The calyx is very poorly developed with barely visible teeth or without teeth. Petals white, yellowish or greenish white, naked, back ovate, on top slightly cut with short, inwardly tangled tongue, to the base wedge-shaped or suddenly passing into a short and wide claw; The final ones sometimes bigger. Fruits closely elongated ovate to almost cylindrical, more rarely ovate, slightly laterally flattened, at the tip usually ending with a well-developed small nose, much shorter than the rest of the fetus or almost without a small nose; the stylopodium is conical; The stairs are straight or curved down, equal to or 2 times longer than the stylopodium; the carpophore only at the top or almost to the middle two-part; meridia with slightly noticeable ribs (only at the top of the nose) or without ribs, bare, smooth, sometimes glossy or covered with spikes and bristles, in cross-section round, elliptical or angled; The grooves one above the furrows and 2 on the inside, on the ripening fruits of the vanishing gills. Endosperm on the inside with a shallow longitudinal groove.

Table for determining the species 1   Main rays 6 - 15, most often more than 7. Fruit with a short, poorly developed nose, less than 1/5 of the length of the rest of the fruit .................... 2 1* Main rays 2 - 6, most often 3 - 5. Fruit with well-developed nose, at least 1/4 of the length of the rest of the fruit .................................................. 4 2   Fruits naked, smooth and often shiny, very rarely with several small warts. Fruit stems on the edge of their extended top with a crown of very short triangular lance or without a crown of bristles* …….................................................................................................................................................. 3 * The crown of hairs, located along the edge of the expanded top of the fruit handles, is well observed before fruit ripening. 2* The mature fruit, most often covered with more or less convex warts, usually ending with curved bristles, rarely without the wrists, or the fruit almost smooth with rare warts mainly on their upper part. Fruit handles on the edge of their extended tops with a well-developed crown of numerous, thin, long, linear, lancet bristles ............................................................................................................ ................................... 3. - A Nemorosa (M.V.) Spreng. 3   Leaves 3 - 4 times feather-like sliced, longer than broad. The lower main sub-sections are much shorter than the rest of the leaves. The end shares lance, deeply feather-like sliced. Fruit stems with a crown of short bristles ..................................................................... 1. - A. sylvestris (L.) Hoffm. 3* Leaves 2 - 3 times feather-like sliced, long almost as wide. The lower primary sub-units of the first order are nearly as long as the rest of the leaf. The end portions are ovate, to the middle feather-like sliced. Fruit stems without a crown of bristles ................................. 2. - A. nitida (Wahlenb.) Garcke 4   The fruit is elongated linearly, 7 - 10 mm long, with up to 4 mm long small nose, at least 1/3 of the length of the rest of the fruit. Fruit stems without a crown of bristle hairs. Strips far longer than the stylopodium, almost upright ................................................................. 4. - A. Cerefolium (L.) Hoffm. 4* Fruit egg-shaped or oblong egg-shaped, 3 - 4 mm long, with about 1 mm long small nose equal to 1/4 of the rest of the fruit. Fruit stems with a crown of long bristle hairs. Stairs very short, equal to the length of the stylopodium .................................................. 5. Poisoned Amazon - A. caucalis M. B. ¹ Developed by Iv Asenov From  „Флора на НР България”, том VIII, БАН, София, (1982)

*   *   *

Anthriscus or Chervil is a common plant genus of the family Apiaceae, growing in Europe and temperate parts of Asia. It comprises 15 species, some of which are considered as noxious weeds[citation needed]. The genus grows in meadows and verges on slightly wet porous soils. One species, Anthriscus cerefolium is cultivated and used in the kitchen to flavor foods.
Anthriscus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Mouse Moth (recorded on Cow Parsley).
The hollow stem is erect and branched, ending in compound umbels of small white or greenish flowers. The leaves are bipinnate or tripinnate.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

*   *   *

Anthriscus

The genus Anthriscus is in the family Apiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the end of the page.

From “The Plant List” - www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Apiaceae/Anthriscus/

*   *   *
References: „Флора на НР България”, том VIII, БАН, София, (1982), Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, “The Plant List”

Distribution in Bulgaria: (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc.
Distribution:

SPECIES:

Anthriscus nitida (Wohlenb.) Garke - No English name

 

Back to BEGINNING

^© Copy right: K. Nanev© 2012. All rights reserved