SESELIL.ÇAŞIRGÖBEĞİ (in Turkish)

SESELIL. - ÇAŞIRGÖBEĞİ (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Perennials (occasionally monocarpic) or biennials; rootstock with or without a fibrous collar. Leaves 1−4-pinnate. Bracts present or absent. Bracteoles present, free or united at base. Sepals small or absent. Petals white, rarely yellow or ± violet, not radiant. Fruit oblong to ovoid, glabrous or pubescent, scarcely compressed. Primary ridges conspicuous; secondary absent. Vittae 1−3. Stylopodium conical in fruit. Styles persistent.

Reference:
Hedge IC & Lamond JM (1972). Seseli L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 367.

Public Description:

Seseli is a genus of perennial or biennial herbs, commonly known as “çaşırgöbeği” in Turkish, is native to Europe, Crimea, Central and Southern Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, North and West Africa and Eastern Mediterranean. There are approximately 77 species in the world and 12 species (13 taxa) in Türkiye. They have white or yellow flowers and sometimes a woody conical taproot at base.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seseli/, Accessed date: 21.12.2015.

Anonymous 2 (2015). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Apiaceae/Seseli/, Accessed date: 21.12.2015.

Doğan Güner E (2012). Seseli L., 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. 78.