BIFORAHoffm. - SARSAPARILLA
Scientific Description:
Glabrous annuals with angled stems, slender taproots and a foetid smell. Leaves 1−2-pinnate; petiole winged, not sheathing. Sepals obsolete. Petals white. Fruit didymous, glabrous, hard; each mericarp ± globose, ± rugose, without conspicuous ridges, pale brown or greenish; commissural face perforated. Vittae absent.
Reference:
Hedge IC & Lamond JM (1972). Bifora Hoffm., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 332.
Public Description:
Bifora is a genus of annual herbs, commonly known as “sarsaparilla”, and is native to southern and central Europe, Türkiye, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and Syria. There are 3 species in the world and 2 species (2 taxa) in Türkiye. They are bad smelling plants with white flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2015). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Apiaceae/Bifora, Accessed date: 19.12.2015.
Anonymous 2 (2018). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/search/?q=bifora, Accessed date: 07.03.2018.
Menemen Y (2012). Bifora Hoffm. In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 50.
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